Maccabi Tel Aviv game at Besiktas moved to Hungary
The Europa League match between Turkish football team Besiktas and Israeli rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv has been moved from Istanbul to Debrecen in Hungary, UEFA announced.
“The match will be played behind closed doors following a decision of the local Hungarian authorities,” the governing body of European football said in a statement.
The announcement comes days after street fights broke out involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Police said tensions built up ahead of the match as Maccabi fans burned a Palestinian flag in Amsterdam’s central Dam Square and vandalised a taxi.
Besiktas already announced the match against Maccabi on November 28 would be played “in a neutral country” for security reasons.
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US military strikes multiple sites in Syria
The US Central Command says it hit nine targets in two locations that it claimed were associated with Iranian groups in Syria, “in response to several attacks on US personnel in Syria over the last 24 hours”.
“These strikes will degrade the Iranian backed groups’ ability to plan and launch future attacks on US and coalition forces who are in the region to conduct D-ISIS operations,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
