Greece: Fans burn Israeli flag at basketball game against Israelis

Ynet News:

Fans of a Greek basketball team waved Palestinian and Hezbollah flags and burned an Israeli flag during a game with an Israeli team in Athens on Wednesday.

The incident happened when AEK Athens hosted Hapoel Jerusalem for the Gameday 9 match in Basketball Champions League. The Greek fans also put up pictures of Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian terrorist currently in jailed in Israel for deadly terror activity.

AEK's supporters even shined laser in the eyes of the Israeli fans.

"We had heavy security protecting us," said a Hapoel Jerusalem fan, Matan Ben-Harush. "We were surrounded by hundreds of police officers, we could see the fans of the other team tearing Hapoel flags before the game but there was no physical confrontation."

According to Ben-Harush, during the first quarter of the game, thousands of AEK fans entered the stadium. "We could see the Greek fans getting closer to our seats, waving Palestinian flags, and carrying pictures of Barghouti, the climax was when they started burning Israeli flags."

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