Dutch PM will avoid Cop29 talks due to Maccabi Tel Aviv clashes, in latest blow to Azerbaijan summit
DUTCH Prime Minister c has pulled out of the Cop29 talks beginning tomorrow in Amsterdam, citing violence involving the clashes between Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans and residents last week.
Far-right supporters of the Israeli football team rampaged through Amsterdam on Thursday night, tearing down Palestinian flags and chanting racist slogans including “Death to Arabs” and “Why are there no schools in Gaza? Because there are no children left.”
Local youths and taxi drivers, many of them Muslim, brawled with groups of the fans in response in what authorities say were anti-semitic attacks.
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