An Israeli tourist hospitalised by guests at a Center Parcs in the Netherlands was ‘beaten unconscious’ by a family who shouted ‘kill the Jews’ and ‘we will get to your children’ during a paintball game, a witness has claimed.
The ‘family of ten’, who were also said to have shouted ‘Free Palestine‘, launched the vicious assault which hospitalised two Israeli holidaymakers, leaving one unconscious, during a paintball game between two families at the Center Parcs De Kempervennen on Thursday evening, in the southern village of Westerhoven.
Four Israeli tourists were injured while two men, aged 41 and 37, left the resort to seek medical treatment at a hospital in Eindhoven following the paintballing, which turned violent after the other family started aggressively throwing stones and sand.
Dutch police have since arrested a 15-year-old from Maarssen, Ultrecht, while an investigation remains ongoing.
The Center Parcs claims there were no cameras which recorded the attack but a witness, who took part in the paintball game, claims that it was carried out by ‘a group of Dutch people of Arab origin’.
They told Israeli outlet Ynet the assault, which included the targeting of a 15-year-old boy, was launched by a family of around ten during a pre-arranged paintball game.
‘They joined the game. From the first moment they were violent,’ they said.
They shouted ‘Kill the Jews’ and ‘Free Palestine’, and promised ‘We will get to your children’, the witness claims.
An Israeli tourist hospitalised by guests at a Center Parcs in the Netherlands was ‘beaten unconscious’ by a family who shouted ‘kill the Jews’
The attackers also were said to have shouted ‘we will get to your children’ during a paintball game
Pro-Palestine student activists had taken to social media to complain about hundreds of ‘Zionists’ holidaying at Center Parcs De Eemhof in Flevoland
An Israeli tourist was then said to have been left unconscious and bleeding after being kicked, punched and pinned to the floor, after they asked the other family to stop being aggressive.
Two others were beaten as they tried to get the attackers off their family member.
‘This is a very big trauma for us and especially for the children who were there,’ the witness said.
They added that one of the injured family members is a senior doctor, who was injured himself after taking blows to the head.
The doctor said the other Israeli would have died if the attack continued for a few more minutes, the witness claims.
Dutch police said the brawl was sparked after an argument over the way the paintball was being played. They said the brawl continued onto the resort’s terrace, with punches being thrown and threats shouted, before they intervened.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry condemned the incident and called on the Dutch government to ‘come to its senses and act resolutely to prevent attacks on Israelis in its territory, to locate the criminals, and to bring them to justice’.
It comes just days after pro-Palestine student activists took to social media to complain about hundreds of ‘Zionists’ holidaying in another Center Parcs resort in the Netherlands.
Attacks against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam last November were allegedly pre-meditated well in advance on the messaging app Telegram
A fan of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel-Aviv is met by a family member at Ben Gurion International Airport after the attacks
Nine vehicles belonging to a group of strictly Orthodox Jews, some of whom were from Stamford Hill in London, were reportedly vandalised with spray paint in French town Châtel
The video, shared on Instagram this week, appears to show a number of Israeli families with their faces blurred staying at Center Parcs De Eemhof in Flevoland.
The activists call on their 13,400 followers to use similar videos to determine whether any ‘war criminals of the Zionist entity’ are holidaying in the Netherlands, and to report them to the police to be arrested.
‘Over a hundred of citizens of the Zionist Entity are staying at Center Parcs de Eemhof, Zeewolde this week,’ the activists wrote.
‘Who is screening these people traveling to the EU visa-free? Are they complicit in war crimes and genocide by the Zionist Entity?’
‘If all else fails: mobilise, show them we see them, and make clear they are NOT welcome,’ the post said.
The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI), a Dutch organisation that combats antisemitism, called the video a ‘Jew Hunt Part 2’ following the attacks against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam last November, which were allegedly pre-meditated well in advance on the messaging app Telegram.
At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the ‘planned antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens’, and Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, called the events ‘an antisemitic pogrom’.
The CIDI filed a legal complaint following the footage, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Center Parcs is reportedly conducting its own investigation into the social media post, which is still available online as of Friday 22 August.
Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident and are reviewing CCTV in an effort to identify who is responsible
Hundreds of demonstrators protested against the arrival of Israeli cruise passengers in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece on July 29, 2025
‘Everyone staying with us does so as a holiday guest and is welcome as long as the park rules are followed and everyone treats each other with respect,’ a Center Parcs spokesperson said regarding the video, according to Omroep Flevoland.
‘We understand that world events can evoke strong emotions. Our aim is to provide an environment where everyone feels safe and can be together in peace,’ they added.
A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in The Hague told the Daily Mail: ‘This is not the first time that Israelis visiting the Netherlands were violently attacked. The sequence of actions is very alarming.
‘We expect the Dutch authorities to take urgent measures to protect Israelis and Jews in the Netherlands. Intimidation and violence against people because of their background is unacceptable.’
Several groups of Israeli and Jewish tourists have encountered hostility while travelling abroad this summer.
A French resort manager was arrested on Thursday after refusing 150 Israeli children, aged between eight and 16, entry to a leisure park in in Porté-Puymorens, in the Pyrénées.
The 52-year-old manager said he had banned the group, despite them holding a reservation, on account of ‘personal convictions’.
Just a day earlier, cars belonging to a group of strictly Orthodox British Jews were vandalised with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti in a French Alpine town.
It is understood that local authorities in Châtel in the Haute-Savoie region have opened an investigation into the incident and are reviewing CCTV in an effort to identify who is responsible.
In July, dozens of French-Jewish students aged between 10 and 15 and several adults were kicked off Vueling flight V8166 as it waited on the tarmac at Valencia for ‘unruly behaviour’.
Footage shared online appeared to show one adult member of the group being detained by Spanish civil guard officers in the walkway shortly after she was removed from the jet
Police in helmets and riot shields watch over the protest against the arrival of Israeli cruise passengers in Crete
The expulsion of the 44 students amid reports they were endangering the safety of the flight sparked a row, with the carrier coming under fire for alleged anti-Semitism.
The holiday camp the children were flying with accused Vueling of ‘brutality’ as footage emerged showing their adult group leader being detained with handcuffs by Spanish police.
In the same month, a Jewish man in Italy claimed he and his six-year-old son were attacked at a motorway service area by an enraged pro-Palestinian crowd.
They were both wearing traditional Jewish kippahs and attracted the attention of people at the services near Lainate on the main Milan-Lagi motorway.
In the clip which was later uploaded to social media, a group of people can be heard shouting in Italian ‘Palestina Libera ‘(Free Palestine)’ and ‘Go back home’.
Others also shout in Italian ‘Assassini’ (murderers) while another adds: ‘This isn’t Gaza, here is Italy’ and another can be heard shouting: ‘You will go to hell sooner or later’.
In interviews with Italian media he claimed to have been pushed to the floor and then kicked with the crowd demanding he delete the video.
And in Greece, Israelis travelling on the Crown Iris cruise ship have been forced to leave islands as soon as they arrived after being met with hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors.
Anti-war protesters on the Cycladic island of Syros were the first to hold a furious demonstration against the docking of the cruise ship containing tourists on July 22.
Some 1,700 Israeli nationals, including between 300 to 400 children, were prevented from disembarking at Ermoupoli and were instead diverted to the Port of Limassol in Cyprus.
Protestors clashed with riot police in separate demonstrations against the arrival of more Israelis on the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete in the following days.
