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Bondi Beach shooting live updates: Australia vows crackdown on guns and antisemitism after 15 killed
At least 15 people are dead after a mass shooting at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday. Follow live updates.
A day after the deadliest domestic terror attack in Australia’s history, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faced criticism he didn’t do enough to combat rising attacks on the Jewish community nor swiftly enact recommendations from the nation’s antisemitism envoy released five months ago.
Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarter's Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky says the Bondi Beach shooting reflects Australia's tolerance of escalating antisemitic violence.
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Eleven killed after gunmen target Jewish festival in deadliest Australia shooting in decades
More than two dozen others were injured in the attack, which police say they are treating as a terrorist incident.
Days after Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was spray-painted on the front of a Jewish bakery in Sydney, the first of a string of antisemitic incidents in Australia.
Local Chabad centers enhance safety measures after Australia mass shooting targeted Chanukah gathering, while community members express growing concerns about antisemitic violence.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ascribed the fatal mass shooting in Sydney to Australia’s call for a Palestinian state, saying he warned ahead of the attack that the move “pours fuel on antisemitic fire.
The Bondi Beach attack is the latest and most deadly in a string of antisemitic incidents that have blighted Australia