Amsterdam police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with the string of attacks on Israeli football supporters in the city on Thursday night as their investigation continues.

The man, the first to be picked up on the basis of camera footage, has been charged with committing acts of violence on the Spui in the centre of the city.  

Five supporters of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv were taken to hospital after being attacked by what Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema described as “hit and runs” by “youths on scooters following the Europa League tie against Ajax. A further 20 to 30 were injured.

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Analysts and journalists are still putting together exactly what happened in the city, but the attacks have drawn condemnation worldwide. US president Joe Biden described them as “despicable”. The attacks echo “dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted”, he said.

Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has declared the entire city and Amstelveen to be “risk zones” over the weekend, banning all demonstrations and giving the police random stop and search rights.

Security has also been beefed up at Jewish institutions nationwide.

Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar flew to the Netherlands to meet government officials and the local Jewish community on Friday. He told reporters at Schiphol airport that he had offered help with collecting evidence against those who “attacked and insulted Israeli citizens”.

The incident, he said, was “perhaps the greatest attack on Jews in Europe since the 1930s and 40s”.

Dutch officials are also investigating claims that Israel had warned there could be trouble around the match, which Halsema denied at Friday’s press conference.

However, Israeli news channel N12 claims to have documents showing the Israeli secret service Mossad “had received alerts about the possibility that Israelis would be attacked”  and that “pro-Palestinian rioters would participate in a violent demonstration”.

A protest had been planned outside the Johan Cruijff stadium where the game took place but was moved elsewhere the day before. It now appears some of the demonstrators did attempt to reach the stadium but were kept away by police.

Although there had been skirmishes throughout the day and on Wednesday, the real trouble did not erupt until after the match in the city centre.

Police arrested 62 people for public offences on Thursday night, four of whom remained in custody on Saturday afternoon.