Rhino: Agencies – Fans of the Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv were beaten by criminal groups in the early hours of Friday morning, after a match with Dutch team Ajax Amsterdam, Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Haalsma, said.

Dozens of Israeli fans were chased and assaulted, and five of them were injured and had to be hospitalized for treatment, police said.

Police arrested 63 suspects in total and promised an investigation, while politicians at home and abroad condemned the violence.