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Pro-Palestinian youths “sought out” Israeli fans to attack after a football match involving Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam, local authorities and police said on Friday, while condemning the violent attacks. Several people were injured in the clashes on Thursday evening and five had to be treated in hospital, though all have since been released, police said. “At several locations in the city, fans were besieged, abused and pelted with fireworks,” Amsterdam’s Mayor Femke Halsema said, condemning the “anti-Semitic behaviour.” “There is no excuse for the anti-Semitic behaviour exhibited last night …