US EditionBondi Beach Hanukkah Shooting: What We Know About the Gunmen
The attack on a Jewish Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach killed 15 people and injured 42, with authorities classifying it as a terrorist and antisemitic incident.
- On Sunday, a father-and-son attack at Bondi Beach during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration killed 15 people, with emergency services responding to shots fired at 6:47 pm.
- New South Wales Premier Chris Minns declared the incident a terrorist incident at 9:36 pm as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump described it as antisemitic.
- Police said the father and his son used `long arms to fire into crowds of people` and investigators believe the father's six licensed guns were all used; one assailant was killed and the son is critically wounded while two police officers were also injured.
- Australian federal and state police launched a joint counter‑terrorism operation, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the attack `pure evil` as Australian media named Sajid Akram and Naveed Akram.
- Around 1,000 people attended the event, with five in critical condition and a 10-year-old girl among the victims.
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Two days after the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach, with 16 deaths, Australia is still wrestling for relief. While more than two dozen people in hospitals are fighting for their lives – including one of the assassins – investigators are beginning to reconstruct the story of fatal radicalization.
Police ‘froze’ as terrorists massacred Jews on Bondi Beach, eyewitness accounts and videos suggest
Video of the attack shows an armed police officer taking cover behind a car after Sajid ran from el-Ahmed and joined his son on a nearby bridge. By Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon An eyewitness from Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, stated police officers hesitated as two terrorists sprayed bullets at a group of Jews gathered to celebrate Hanukkah, while video analysis indicates law enforcement waited several minutes …
The Australian authorities now favour the jihadist track after the deadly attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, while the investigation reveals evidence suggesting radicalization inspired by the Islamic State. ...
The Bondi Beach gunmen were a father and son driven by Islamic State ideology. Here’s what we know about the suspects
The father and son duo suspected of carrying out a massacre at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday were “driven by Islamic state ideology,” police say, and they recently traveled to a part of the Philippines – which has previously been a hotbed of Islamic extremism.
Bondi Beach shooting case new twist – Suspect father had entered Philippines as ‘Indian national’, says report
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Bondi Beach shooting carried out by a father and son was driven by Islamic State ideology, as police uncover ISIS flags and improvised bombs.
Australia plans tougher gun laws after police say father and son killed 15 at Bondi Beach
Australia vowed stricter gun laws on Monday as it began mourning victims of its worst mass shooting in almost 30 years, in which police accused a father and son of killing 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach.
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