Bondi Beach Shooting News Live Updates: Shooter Was Gun Club Member, Licensed Since 2015, Say Police

An attack on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening killed 15 people and left dozens injured, plunging Australia into a day of mourning. Emergency services responded to reports of gunfire at around 6:47 pm local time at Bondi Beach, one of Sydney’s most popular tourist locations. The shooting took place during an annual Hanukkah event attended by about 1,000 people, police said.

Authorities said the attackers fired into the crowd, killing victims aged between 10 and 87. A 10-year-old girl later died in a children’s hospital. Forty-two people were hospitalised, including five in critical condition. Two police officers were wounded in a shootout with the attackers. Police identified the gunmen as a 50-year-old father, who was killed during the confrontation, and his 24-year-old son, who remains in critical condition under police guard. The father was licensed to own six firearms, all believed to have been used in the attack.

The incident was later declared a terrorist attack, triggering a joint counter-terrorism operation. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of “pure evil”. US President Donald Trump described the shooting as a “purely antisemitic attack”, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Australia’s government of failing to act strongly enough against antisemitism before the attack.

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