Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Amsterdam after the city banned demonstrations due to violence

Police arrested several people on Sunday for taking part in a protest in central Amsterdam that was banned following violence against fans of an Israeli football club, a local broadcaster reported.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema banned all weekend protests after horrific scenes of youths on motorbikes and on foot attacking Maccabi Tel Aviv fans on Thursday and Friday in what has been widely condemned as a violent religious outburst in the Dutch capital.

Israel's embassy in the Netherlands said 2,000 Israelis were sent home on special flights from Amsterdam in the past few days. The attack left five Israeli soccer fans hospitalized, and comes as anger grows war in Gaza.

Before the match against Ajax, Maccabi fans staged a demonstration in support of Israel in the center of Amsterdam where they chanted anti-Arab slogans on their way to the stadium. It was also reported that Maccabi fans started fighting.

The video shows a group of fans chanting “Allow the Israeli army” and “**** the Arabs” as they wear gear to support their team, CBS foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports. Other images show a Palestinian flag being torn down from the second floor of a building where fans had gathered, by someone climbing over a safe on the ground floor of the building to get to it.

After the violent attack on Israeli soccer fans that followed, one man who attended the Maccabi game in the Netherlands told CBS News: “It was very scary. I saw people being beaten.”

A video on local radio station AT5 showed police arresting a man on Sunday who had taken part in a small protest in the center of Dam Square. Protesters chanted slogans including “Free, free Palestine.” AT5 reported that around 20 people were arrested.

The municipality of Amsterdam said in X that the police have started arresting protesters who refuse to leave the square, which is in the center of the city of shops near the site of the canal network.

The promoters of the protest went to court on Sunday morning seeking a ban on the protest, but the judge agreed with the ban imposed by the municipality.

At the hearing, Amsterdam police chief Olivier Dutilh said there were also incidents at night against people believed to be Jewish, including some being ordered out of taxis and others being asked to show their passports to prove their citizenship.

Police launched a major investigation on Friday after youth gangs carried out what the mayor of Amsterdam called a “hit and run” attack on fans apparently inspired by calls on social media to target Jews. Five people were treated in hospitals and more than 60 suspects were arrested.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar rushed to the Netherlands on Friday and offered Israel's help in the police investigation. He met Saturday with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof and said in a statement that the attacks and demands to show passports “remind the darkest times in history.”

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that anti-Semitic attacks “are not just a threat to Israel, they are a threat to the whole world.”

“We will not allow the horrors of history to repeat themselves. We will never accept – either anti-Semitism or terrorism,” he said.