Dozens of Maccabi Haifa football fans attacked Palestinian restaurant goers with knives, sticks, and bottles; minutes after their match against Bnei Sakhnin, in the predominantly Arab town of Sakhnin, ended in a 3-3 draw.
Residents and eyewitnesses told Middle East Eye that several people were injured after Israeli fans, wearing the club's green and black colours, stormed the Amigos restaurant late on Saturday, near Bnei Sakhnin's Doha Stadium, shortly after the match ended.
"We were standing in the shop when suddenly they attacked us - around 80 of them," Ayham Abu Rayya, the restaurant's owner, told MEE.
"They started hitting [us] with sticks, knives, glass bottles, and beer bottles. It was a sudden attack. They came prepared. The police were with them - and didn't arrest anyone."
Ayham's brother, who suffered a deep head wound that required 14 stitches, said the scene "looked like a battlefield", with several people treated for cuts, bruises and fractures.
