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'Targeted, Antisemitism': 16 Dead, 38 Injured After Father & Son Terrorists Attack Sydney Jewish Celebration

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Live feed of terror attack: 

  • Shooting during a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach

  • Two gunmen opened fire, discharging dozens of rounds

  • The two shooters are father and son

  • A bystander intervened and disarmed one attacker

  • 16 people confirmed dead including a 10-year-old kid (New South Wales Minister says via AFP)

  • 38 others wounded, several critically (via AP)

  • One suspect was killed; another is in critical condition

  • Police are examining a possible IED connection

  • Deadliest Australian shooting since 1996

  • 24-year-old Naveed Akram was identified as one of the suspected gunmen

  • Israel says “blood of the victims is on the hands of the Australian government”

Incident Location:

Dramatic footage.

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Update (1440ET): 

Police say 14 people died at the scene and another two people, including the 10-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man have since died in hospital.

Those who died are yet to be formally identified; however, NSW Premier Chris Minns said the victims range in age from as young as 10 to 87.

"A devastating fact," he told reporters.

Three other children are being treated in hospital, he said.

"The offenders are a 50-year-old and 24-year-old male, who are father and son. The 50-year-old is deceased," NSW Police commissioner Mal Layon told reporters.

The father had a gun license for 10 years.

The shooting was a “targeted attack” on the Jewish community, with one of the gunmen dead and a second in critical condition in the hospital, according to New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon.

Financial Review reports that Israel has accused the Australian government of having blood on its hands for the Bondi Beach terror attack, as world leaders condemned the deadliest day of violence targeting Jews since the October 7 terror attack in southern Israel two years ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in August that his decision to recognise Palestinian statehood poured “fuel on the antisemitic fire”, as he labelled the killing of 11 victims celebrating the start of Hanukkah as “cold-blooded murder”.

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry went as far as to claim the “blood of the victims is on the hands of the Australian government” because it had not stood with Israel against jihadist terrorism, instead choosing a “policy of weakness, restraint, and appeasement”.

“This reckless policy has direct consequences at home within Australia itself,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The Australian government is doing everything in its power to ensure that Australian Jews cannot live safely, peacefully, and securely as Jews in their own country.

“The result is unmistakable. When Jews gather to celebrate a Jewish holiday and light a candle, they are met with murderous violence and terror.”

US President Donald Trump later extended his condolences to those affected.

“In Australia, that was a terrible attack,” he said in brief remarks on Sunday afternoon (Monday AEDT).

“Eleven dead, 29 badly wounded, and that was an anti-Semitic attack, obviously. And I just want to pay my respects to everybody.

“It was a rough day."

He said the US and Australia had a great relationship, and he’d sent a message of support to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Australian people.

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Update (0738ET):

Sky News has identified one of the terrorists in the horrific attack on a Jewish celebration as 24-year-old Naveed Akram.

X users have uncovered more details about Akram:

Bondi Beach terror incident appears to be the result of a mass migration failure. Liberals across the West, driven by what some say is described as suicidal empathy, imported radicalized third-worlders into society. Whether in Australia, Germany, across Europe, or in the United States, the rise of nationalism is a direct result of the blowback phase being supercharged by these terror incidents.

From Bondi Beach to Christmas market attacks across the West, and even the radicalized Afghan national who killed one National Guard service member and critically injured another just down the street from the White House, the pattern of chaos is becoming increasingly clear.

Just last week, U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent warned the House Homeland Security Committee that the Biden-Harris regime flooded the nation with 18,000 "known and suspected terrorists" ... 

Meanwhile, political strategist and analyst from the UAE, Amjad Taha, warned:

I said it on 14 December 2024. And it happened on 14 December 2025. Yes, my country, the UAE, banned them. I said it clearly to the Jewish community at a Bondi Beach restaurant in Australia: when a government allows antisemitism, it invites terror. It leads directly to Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist jihadist–inspired violence.

Today, in western Sydney, you have glorifiers of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood–led army the same people who celebrated October 7 and who are now justifying terrorist attacks. This did not come out of nowhere. This is the inevitable result of hatred that is tolerated, normalized, and protected.

In Israel, Jews are attacked. In Australia, Jews are attacked. So tell us, honestly: where do you want this nation to go? A society that cannot protect its Jewish citizens is a society losing its soul. Antisemitism is not protest. It is not opinion. It is the gateway to terror.

Humanity MUST STAND with the Jewish community now. Silence is no longer neutrality. It is surrender.

UAE's Foreign Minister issued a dire warning to the West in 2017: 

How long are citizens of the West going to tolerate this madness from radical globalist politicians pushing nation-killing open-border policies? 

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At approximately 6:47 p.m. local time, two individuals opened fire on crowds at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, where over 1,000 people had gathered for a Jewish celebration of the first day of Hanukkah. 

The two gunmen killed at least 12 people, and 29 others have been transported to various hospitals - including two police officers who are in serious condition - in what the authorities called an anti-semitic terrorist attack.

New South Wales police say two people have been taken into custody, and the Australian Broadcasting Corp said one of at least two gunmen was among those killed.

The police said they know two gunmen were involved and are investigating whether there was a third shooter.

The rare mass shooting sent crowds scattering on Australia's best-known beach. Emergency workers were seen transporting a person on a stretcher after the shooting. Video from the scene broadcast by ABC Australia, the public broadcaster, showed police officers fanning out in an outdoor area where a gun was lying near a tree.

An eyewitness named Gil, who did not give his surname, described the scene.

"It was kind of like, I don't know, fish in a barrel. Like, the guy (shooter) had a… I think what I've been told he had an automatic rifle, big gun, standing on a bridge, and just target practice."

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the incident "shocking and distressing", adding that "emergency responders are on the ground and working to save lives".

Albanese said the shooting was "an act of evil anti-Semitism, terrorism, that has struck the heart of our nation." Australia's PM Albanese says the shooting was "an act of evil anti-Semitism, terrorism, that has struck the heart of our nation."

One witness described the shooting. "I saw at least 10 people on the ground and blood everywhere," 30-year-old local Harry Wilson told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Eyewitness account... 

An absolutely heroic act by a bystander, who wrestled the gun away from one of the terrorists. A relative of the hero later spoke to local media ... 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Jewish people who had gone to light the first candle of the Hanukkah holiday on the beach had been attacked by "vile terrorists".

Australia has a mass migration problem. 

Although mass shootings are rare in Australia, the last happened just two months ago in Croydon Park, a suburb about 16 kilometers (10 miles) to the west of Bondi Beach. No one was killed, although 16 were injured after an alleged shooter shot 50 bullets onto a busy street from the window of his apartment. 

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