Australian authorities say
Naveed Akram and his father
Sajid Akram carried out an antisemitic terrorist attack at a crowded Hanukkah celebration near
Bondi Beach in Sydney, killing sixteen people and injuring around forty others in a massacre that has horrified Jewish communities worldwide. Investigators report that the fifty year old licensed gun owner Sajid was shot dead by police while his twenty four year old son, a Pakistani national, remains under guard in hospital, as officers seize six registered firearms, neutralize crude homemade bombs and confirm there is no third attacker after raids in Bonnyrigg and Campsie. Among the dead and wounded are Holocaust survivors
Alexander Kleytman and
Larisa Kleytman, French citizen
Dan Elkayam, an unnamed Israeli citizen, London born rabbi
Eli Schlanger and fruit vendor
Ahmed al Ahmed, whose intervention to disarm a gunman was praised by
Anthony Albanese,
Benjamin Netanyahu,
Emmanuel Macron,
Isaac Herzog,
Donald Trump and other leaders who condemned the assault as an "act of pure evil" and pledged support for
Australia’s Jewish community.