The UEFA Nations League match between France and Israel at Stade de France is set for tonight amid heightened security following recent violence against Israeli fans in Amsterdam. French authorities have deployed 4,000 police officers, while ticket sales remain low due to safety concerns. President Macron is expected to attend.
The match comes after violent incidents in Amsterdam involving Israeli fans, which were condemned as antisemitic. Following these events, Israel's National Security Council advised its citizens to avoid attending the match in Paris, raising security concerns.
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Israel, formally known as the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country consisting of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.
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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has been President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017.
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands with a population of 872,680 within the city proper, 1,380,872 in the urban area and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area.
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The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. Its seating capacity of 80,698 makes it the seventh-largest stadium in Europe.
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of 105 square kilometres.
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Laurent Nuñez-Belda is a French civil servant and independent politician who has been serving as Head of the National Center of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism since 2020.
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Bezalel Yoel Smotrich is an Israeli politician. The leader of Tkuma, he is currently a member of the Knesset for the Yamina alliance.
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Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football.
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Gaza may refer to:
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The UEFA Nations League is a biennial international football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body.
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