Are you going on the road? Here you will find it overview of the work. Check the railway timetable.
What can you expect today?
- Several pro-Palestinian demonstrations are held in The Hague. Protesters go to the Hofplaats and the Plein. There may also be protests on the Malieveld. In addition, a demonstration at the Vrijthof in Maastricht has been announced.
- On Dam Square in Amsterdam, victims of the benefits affair protest against politicians and the tax authorities. There are still problems to be resolved, they say.
- First division football clubs enter the play-offs for promotion to the premier league. The first matches are NAC Breda-FC Volendam, De Graafschap-Roda JC and Almere City FC-NEC. The team that finishes sixteenth in the Eredivisie will enter the next play-off round.
- The men’s hockey teams of Bloemendaal and Kampong play the second game in the final of the play-offs for the national title. Bloemendaal won the first game. For the ladies, Amsterdam and Den Bosch play the return in Den Bosch. Den Bosch has won the first game.
- In England, English football clubs Chelsea and Leicester City compete for the FA Cup at Wembley. Leicester is in the final of the premier English cup tournament for the first time since 1969 and hopes to win the prestigious cup for the first time. Chelsea have already won the FA Cup eight times, most recently in 2018.
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What did you miss?
For the fifth night in a row, there was back and forth shelling between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera and AP news agency report at least seven deaths in Gaza City after an Israeli bombing of a house. There would still be people under the rubble.
Furthermore, violence from the Gaza Strip spilled over into the West Bank. Hundreds of Palestinians in various cities clashed with Israeli security forces in protests. They set fire to piles of car tires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers. They fired back, killing ten people. An eleventh Palestinian was shot dead when he tried to attack a soldier with a knife, according to Israel.
Other news from the night:
And then this:
The Marktweg in The Hague was once the most beautiful Oranjestraat in the Netherlands in 2014. “We are going to break our own,” said a resident during the preparations for the European Football Championship next month. “We are going even better, even more extreme.”
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