Israel has banned its soldiers from traveling to the Netherlands following tensions and riots in the capital Amsterdam sparked by racist chants by fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv against Arabs. While the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the chants, an Israeli plane headed to Amsterdam to evacuate the team's fans.

Members of the Yemeni community in the Netherlands organized a protest today, Sunday, to express their rejection of the Dutch government’s classification of Yemen as a “safe country” while militias have been dividing the country for years since the outbreak of war in Yemen.