PinnedHere’s the latest.At least 11 people were killed by gunmen who targeted a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack. One of two suspects was also killed, the police said, and the other was said to be wounded and in custody.Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon of the New South Wales Police Force said on Sunday evening that officers had found what they believed to be several improvised explosive devices in a vehicle linked to the suspect who was killed. The vehicle had been parked near the scene of the attack, and bomb disposal units were deployed, he said.Commissioner Lanyon also said that the police were looking into whether a “third offender” was involved.Hundreds of people had gathered earlier on Sunday at Bondi, Australia’s best-known beach, for a Hanukkah event. Children were playing as music and bubbles filled the air. Then gunshots ripped through the celebration.Danny Ridley, a photographer who was documenting the Hanukkah gathering, said on attacker fired at him and left him with a light gash on his left rib. He hid behind a parking meter.“It was just carnage,” he said.The mass shooting, a rarity in Australia, sent the crowd scattering. Video from the scene shown by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the public broadcaster, showed police officers fanning out across an area where a gun was lying near a tree.“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia said. He added: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”Commissioner Lanyon said the assailant who had been killed was previously known to the police. Hours after the shooting, law enforcement officials swarmed a home in Bonnyrigg, a suburb west of Sydney. Two people were escorted out of the house, which was surrounded by a heavy police presence.The shooting on Sunday was the latest in a series of antisemitic attacks in Australia that intensified last year. Some leaders and organizations from the Jewish community said Sunday that their warnings about violence had not been heeded.Here’s what we know:Initial reports: The police began receiving reports at about 6:45 p.m. that multiple people had been shot. The gunmen emerged from a small silver hatchback parked by a footbridge near the beach and began firing into the crowd celebrating Hanukkah, according to a witness who said he was walking a few dozen yards from the shooters.Hanukkah celebration: Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, is a global organization based in Brooklyn that is dedicated to strengthening and enriching Jewish life by providing religious, educational, social and cultural services around the world. The group’s chapter in Bondi Beach was hosting the Hanukkah event on Sunday.The victims: Investigators have not released the names of the victims. The Israeli foreign ministry said that at least one Israeli national was known to have been killed and another injured. Sydney Hatzolah, a local chapter of a Jewish emergency medical service organization, said on Facebook that one of its team members had been injured.Rare shooting: Minutes after the shooting, the New South Wales police issued an alert asking people to stay away from the beach, which is over 3,000 feet long. Mass shootings are rare in Australia, a country with strict gun laws, and one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world.Antisemitic attacks: The shooting on Sunday was the latest in a series of antisemitic attacks in Australia that intensified last year. The violence has unnerved many in the country, which has the world’s highest concentration of Holocaust survivors after Israel. Arsonists last year targeted a Jewish business and a synagogue, prompting calls for greater accountability.Isabel Kershner and Damien Cave contributed reporting.King Charles III of Britain said in a statement on Sunday that he and Queen Camilla were “appalled and saddened” by the terrorist attack. ”In times of hurt Australians always rally together in unity and resolve,” the monarch, who is also Australia’s official head of state, said in a statement. “I know that the spirit of the community and love that shines so brightly in Australia — and the light at the heart of the Chanukah festival — will always triumph over the darkness of such evil.”The Bondi Beach Chanukah celebration was hosted by a local Chabad group, which advertised the event online with promises of free donuts, a petting zoo, and a giant Menorah lighting. Video from the event before the shooting — confirmed with additional witness accounts — show the crowd to be mixed and festive, with visibly Orthodox members handing out food to beachgoers that witnesses said included Jews and non-Jews. Chabad is known for its outreach efforts worldwide. The Chanukah festival was an annual event for the group.2000 members of Sydney, Australia's Jewish community gathered for a Chanukah party at Bondi. Here is a peek at the event before the horror unfolded. pic.twitter.com/N1akiRO3mY— Sandy Cee (@SandyCee510864) December 14, 2025 In August, Australia severed diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled its diplomats after accusing Iran of directing arson attacks against a Jewish business and a synagogue during a wave of antisemitic attacks. On Sunday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, described the mass shooting on Sunday as an act of terrorism. “We condemn the violent attack in Sydney, Australia,” he said. “Terrorism and the killing of people, wherever they occur, are unacceptable and condemned.”In Canada, home to the world’s fourth-largest Jewish population especially in Toronto and Montreal, the authorities were planning to bolster security in Jewish communities on Sunday. “You can expect an increased police presence in the Jewish community,” the Toronto Police Service said in a statement. “This is a proactive measure to ensure the safety and security of the community.”Rabbi Saul Emanuel, director of the Jewish Community Council in Montreal, said he had spoken with the Montreal police and they were also planning to increase their visibility and patrols.The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh described the Bondi attack as the “deadliest attack of Jews in the diaspora since October 27, 2018 at the Tree of Life building.” In that attack, an assailant killed at least 11 people praying inside a synagogue.“The story of Chanukah is one of Jewish strength and resistance, led by the Maccabees against their oppressors, and serves as an annual celebration of the enduring Jewish spirit,” the Pittsburgh federation said in a statement, acknowledging how visible the holiday is worldwide.Leaders worldwide react with horror to the Bondi attack.ImageEmergency vehicles at the scene of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York TimesAs Jews around the world were preparing to mark the first night of Hanukkah with friends and family on Sunday, gunmen killed 11 people who had gathered on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, for a public menorah lighting.Leaders across the world quickly offered condolences and condemned the attack, which Australia is treating as an act of terrorism.“Europe stands with Australia and Jewish communities everywhere,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said on X, reflecting sentiments shared by other leaders around the world. “We are united against violence, antisemitism and hatred.”Several cities with large Jewish populations said they would increase police protection at synagogues and public celebrations.Both the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Police in London said they would increase patrols for Jewish celebrations on Sunday night.“We are deploying additional resources to public Hanukkah celebrations and synagogues out of an abundance of caution,” the N.Y.P.D. said in a statement on social media.Across the world, offenses against Jewish people and property have doubled or even tripled since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.In Australia, Jews have endured a series of antisemitic attacks in the last 12 months. Synagogues in Sydney and Melbourne have been targeted with attempted arson and graffiti, while a Jewish day care center and an Israeli restaurant have been attacked.In Britain, a man attacked a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews. Two people were killed while worshiping, one of whom was accidentally struck by police bullets. The police also killed the attacker.And American Jews have faced a year of violence.In April, an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on the first night of Passover while Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, slept upstairs with his family. In May, two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed as they left a reception at a Jewish museum in Washington, alarming Jews in the capital.And in June, a man firebombed marchers who had gathered in Boulder, Colo., to express support for Israeli hostages. An 82-year-old woman who was injured in that attack later died.Sydney Hatzolah, a local chapter of a Jewish emergency medical service organization, said on Facebook that one of their team members had been shot in the back and was taken to surgery.The Israeli foreign ministry said that at least one Israeli national was known to have been killed in the shooting at the Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration. Another Isaeli national had been injured, the ministry said.Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, sought to blame the shooting in Sydney, at least in part, on Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state earlier this year. Speaking to government ministers on Sunday, Netanyahu said that the Australian government had done “nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia” with the result being “the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today.” He did not provide any evidence to back up that claim.Netanyahu also said that he sent a letter four months ago to his Australian counterpart, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, warning him that his government’s policies were “promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia.” But instead of replacing weakness with action and appeasement with resolve, Netanyahu said he wrote, “you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement.”Matthew AbbottHours after the shooting at Bondi Beach, law enforcement officials swarmed a home in Bonnyrigg, a suburb west of Sydney. Two people were escorted out of the house, which was surrounded by a heavy police presence.ImageCredit...Matthew Abbott for The New York TimesChabad, the host of the event, represents a branch of Hasidic Judaism.ImageOutside the Chabad global headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in April.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesChabad, also known as Lubavitch, is a global organization based in Brooklyn that is dedicated to strengthening and enriching Jewish life by providing religious, educational, social and cultural services around the world.Representing a branch of Hasidic Judaism, the organization maintains a vast network of emissaries and Chabad houses that offer hospitality and engage in outreach. They serve local Jewish communities and often draw in crowds of secular Jews traveling in far-flung places during holidays.The group’s chapter in Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, was hosting a Hanukkah event on Sunday when gunmen targeted the celebration, killing at least 11 people.Chabad began in Czarist Russia as a mystical movement about 250 years ago and spread across the country in the 19th century. Based for decades in a Russian town called Lubavitch, the group went underground after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and remained active in the Soviet Union, where its followers were persecuted, arrested and even executed.The modern organization grew in the late 1940s after the Holocaust devastated Jewish communities in Europe. Today, Chabad says it runs a network of about 6,500 emissary families, with about 2,500 in the United States. Almost 200 emissaries are currently operating in Australia, according to Moni Ender, a Chabad spokesman in Israel.Chabad is a Hebrew acronym for chochmah, meaning wisdom; binah, meaning comprehension; and da’at, or knowledge — three faculties at the heart of the movement’s religious philosophy. Male followers generally wear the black-and-white clothing of ultra-Orthodox Jews, while women cover their natural hair with scarves or wigs, in line with strict rules of modesty.The organization’s institutions and emissaries have been the targets of attacks before. In 2008, the Chabad house in Mumbai, India, came under attack during a coordinated terrorist assault by gunmen in and around the city’s commercial center.Gunmen held the occupants of the Chabad house hostage and killed the emissaries, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, and four other people. The couple’s infant son Moshe was saved by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel, who managed to escape with him.In November 2024, an Israeli Chabad rabbi, Zvi Kogan, was abducted and killed in the United Arab Emirates in what Israeli officials said was an act of terrorism. Rabbi Kogan, a dual citizen of Israel and Moldova, was a Chabad emissary to Abu Dhabi. The Emirati authorities later sentenced three Uzbek nationals to death for what an Abu Dhabi court called a “premeditated murder with terrorist intention.”A month ago, the Chabad of Bondi held a memorial service honoring the Holtzbergs and Rabbi Kogan.Chabad has been led by a dynasty of charismatic rabbis. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, widely known as the Rebbe, revived and expanded the movement after World War II and led it until his death in 1994.The seventh leader of the dynasty, he had succeeded his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, who died in 1950. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson did not name a successor. Revered by many Jews as one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the last century, some followers consider him to be the Messiah.Bondi mass shooting is the latest in an alarming rise of antisemitic attacks in Australia.ImageMembers of the Jewish community look at the damage from the arson attack at the Adass Israel Synagogue in 2024 in Melbourne, Australia.Credit...Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesAustralian Jews had gathered on Sunday on Sydney’s Bondi Beach to mark Hanukkah, one of the most joyful and family-friendly Jewish holidays, when two gunmen started firing into a crowd.At least 11 people were killed in the mass shooting, according to the authorities. One of the shooters was also killed.“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”The mass shooting came at a time when Australia’s Jewish community was already on edge, after enduring a series of alarming antisemitic attacks.Some Jewish organizations say the episodes intensified after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ensuing war in Gaza, which have also spurred Islamophobic episodes in Australia.“Our figures for antisemitic incidents are off the scale — of a level that we’ve never seen in the more than 30 years that we’ve been monitoring and collecting data,” Daniel Aghion, the president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told Sky News on Sunday, noting the recent spate of arson attacks.“The last two years have been horrific for us,” he added, noting the rising instances of antisemitism around the world.Australia is home to the largest proportion of Holocaust survivors outside Israel. Late last year, the Australian police formed a federal task force to investigate antisemitic violence and threats.In August, Australia accused Iran of directing arson attacks against a Jewish business and a synagogue. It severed diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled Iranian diplomats from Australian soil.And in the past 12 months, synagogues in Sydney and Melbourne have been targeted with attempted arson and graffiti. Other Jewish institutions, including a day care center and an Israeli restaurant, have also been attacked.“How many times did we warn the Government?” the Australian Jewish Association said on Sunday in a post on Facebook. “We never felt once that they listened.” Australia’s national intelligence chief, Mike Burgess, said one of the suspects had been on the authorities’ radar, but did not give any further details. “One of these individuals was known to us, but not in an immediate threat perspective,” he said.The police forces in New York and London said they would increase security presences in their cities after the attack in Sydney. Both the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Police in London said they were not aware of any connection between their cities and the shooting in Australia. “We are deploying additional resources to public Hanukkah celebrations and synagogues out of an abundance of caution,” the N.Y.P.D. said in a statement on social media.The police had previously been aware of one of the gunmen, said Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon. That person is now dead.Here’s what to know about the shooting at Bondi Beach.ImageParamedics waiting to assist other emergency responders at the scene of a shooting in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York TimesAt least 11 people were killed on Sunday and more were injured after two gunmen opened fire at a crowd celebrating the first day of the Hanukkah holiday on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. One of the shooters was also killed, the police said.Officials said that at least 11 other people were injured, two of whom were police officers. The police said that the situation had been “neutralized,” and that the second shooter had also been wounded. They added that the number of casualties was expected to change as they continued to investigate the shooting.The police and the country’s leaders called the shootings a targeted attack on Jewish Australians. Law enforcement officials called the shooting a terrorist attack.Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said that the police had found what they believed to be several improvised explosives devices in a nearby vehicle that is linked to the suspect who was killed. The suspects’ names have not been released yet, and Mr. Lanyon said the police were investigating whether there was any “third offender.” “We will make sure that we prevent any further activity,” he said.One witness video shows dozens of people running out of the water and away from the beach as gunshots rang out. Another shows two gunmen in black shirts firing multiple shots from a bridge at a Bondi Beach parking lot.Here is what we know so far about the shooting:Hundreds had gathered to mark the Jewish holiday.The mass shooting happened around 6:45 p.m. at Bondi Beach, one of Sydney’s most popular tourist destinations that stretches over 3,000 feet long and draws hundreds of thousands of people each year.An event hosted by the Chabad organization was taking place at the beach to celebrate the first day of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah when the gunmen opened fire.“An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a televised address.The shooting “deeply that pains us as a community,” said Robert Gregory, the chief executive of the Australian Jewish Association.Witnesses said they heard many gunshots.Ebonny Munro was at the beach with her 17-month-old baby when she heard gunshots. She dived under a metal barbecue with another man. She said she heard bullets ricocheting off the barbecue and smelled gunpowder from above.She said the shooting lasted around 10 minutes and witnessed at least one person being shot. “I was about to leave, and I just heard this pop,” Ms. Munro said.Finn Foster, 18, a backpacker from Canada, said he and his girlfriend had been headed to McDonald’s to get ice cream when they heard what sounded like fireworks.“Pow, pow, pow,” he said. “Like 15 or 20.”Witnesses and video clips of the scene pointed out two shooters in the attack. The police are still investigating whether any other people were involved. Mass shootings are rare in Australia.Mass shootings are rare in Australia because of the country’s strict gun laws. The nation has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world.The country overhauled its gun laws after a massacre in 1996, when 35 people were killed by a single gunman in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur. Following the shooting, public anger prompted the government to ban assault rifles and many other semiautomatic rifles and shotguns.It also imposed new registration requirements and imposed gun buybacks that removed up to a third of privately held guns from circulation and melted down up to a million guns.Mass shootings are rare in Australia, which has strict gun laws.ImageA pile of firearms that were taken out of circulation during the Australian government’s buy-back operation following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which 35 people were killed by a lone gunman. Credit...David Gray/ReutersMass shootings are rare in Australia, which overhauled its gun laws after a gunman massacred 35 people in 1996.That shooting, in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, led to a national reckoning in Australia, and the government responded by cracking down on gun ownership.The authorities essentially banned assault rifles and many other semiautomatic rifles, as well as shotguns. They imposed mandatory gun buybacks that took as many as one in three privately held guns out of circulation, and, according to some estimates, melted down as many as one million guns. They also imposed new registration requirements and restrictions on gun purchases.It was unclear what types of guns were used on Sunday by two gunmen who killed at least 11 people and injured others at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday evening, according to the police. One of the gunmen was killed at the scene, the police said.For two decades after the 1996 attack, there were no mass shootings in Australia. In 2018, a man killed six members of his own family and then himself.American supporters of gun control, including former President Barack Obama, have pointed to Australia’s strict regulations as a guide to limiting such events in the United States.Chris Minns, the premier of the state of New South Wales, praised the actions of a bystander who was shown in social media footage tackling one of the gunmen from behind, and wresting control of his firearm. “That man is a genuine hero, and I’ve got no doubt there are many many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery,” Minns said.Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said police had found what they believed to several improvised explosives devices in a nearby vehicle that is linked to the suspect who was killed. Bomb disposal units are at the scene. The gunmen emerged from a small silver hatchback parked by a bridge near the beach and began shooting into the crowd celebrating Hanukkah, according to a witness who said he was walking a few dozen yards away from the shooters. The witness, a teenager who asked not to be named for safety reasons, said the gunmen had not been shooting at everyone but were targeting people at the celebration. Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial center, described the attack as “both heartbreaking and alarming,” adding in a statement that the organization’s chairman, Dani Dayan, had raised concerns about the “dangerous rise” of antisemitism in Australia in personal meetings with the premiers of Victoria and New South Wales. “Today’s tragic event makes it painfully clear that these warnings have not been sufficiently heeded,” the statement said.“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy,” said Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister. He added: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”Video{"fit":"cover","play":true,"muted":true,"loop":false,"visibleOnPageLoad":false,"aspectRatio":"3:2","src":[{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg_1080p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":1080,"width":1620},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg_720p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":720,"width":1080},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg_480p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":480,"width":720},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg_360p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":360,"width":540},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg_240p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":240,"width":360},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/hls/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg/master.m3u8","type":"hls","filterQuality":[1080]},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/hlsfmp4/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg/master.m3u8","type":"hlsfmp4","filterQuality":[1080]}],"captions":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157175_1_14visualUploader-57186_wg_1080p.vtt","durationInSeconds":34,"startTime":0,"trackingData":{"contentId":"100000010586372","mData":{"videoName":"","analyticsId":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/embedded/admin/100000010586372/14visualUploader-57186.html","videoUri":"nyt://video/b89c1c8b-1d9b-5928-a592-fd2b90af324d","playerType":"nyt-betamax","videoType":"video","aspectRatio":"3:2","playerVersion":"Live"}}}{"visibleWhen":["before-play"]}{"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/12/14/14visualUploader-57186-cover/14visualUploader-57186-cover-threeByTwoLargeAt2X.jpg"}{"controls":["play","fullscreen","mute","share","scrubber"]}CreditCredit...Australian Parliament TV, via Associated PressPrime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia is speaking to the country on a national broadcast after the terrorist attack.Witnesses describe chaos from the shooting at Bondi Beach.ImageParamedics transported an injured person at the scene of a shooting in Sydney on Sunday Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York TimesAustralian Jews had been gathering on Sunday on Bondi Beach in Sydney for an event to mark the first night of Hanukkah, when gunmen started firing directly into the crowd.One witness, a teenager who asked not to be named for safety reasons, said he saw the gunmen targeting Jewish people who had gathered to celebrate the holiday. He was walking just a few yards away when he saw gunmen emerge from a small silver hatchback parked by a bridge near the beach and begin firing.“They weren’t shooting at everyone,” the teenager said.At least 12 people were killed, authorities said, including a man police said was one of the shooters. More than two dozen others have been transferred to hospitals in the area.Australian authorities have declared the shooting a terrorist attack and said that the shooters were targeting Jews.A Chabad emissary in Australia was killed in the shooting, Motti Seligson, Chabad’s media director, said in a text message. He identified the deceased as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the assistant rabbi at the Chabad of Bondi.The police have not released any information about the victims.“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy,” said Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister.He added: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”The shooting lasted for about 10 minutes, several witnesses said.Danny Ridley, a photographer who was documenting the Hanukkah event, said a shooter fired at him and left him with a light gash on his left rib. He hid behind a parking meter.“It was just carnage,” he said.There were children at the event, which Ebonny Munro happened upon with her 17-month-old baby. She noticed the celebration, she said, with its music and bubbles floating in the air.Then, she started hearing gunshots. Ms. Munro, 32, dived under a metal barbecue, she said, after happening upon the Hanukkah celebration. A man was also taking shelter there, she said.As they hid, she could smell the gunpowder from the bullets clanging above her head, Ms. Munro said. The shooting lasted for about 10 minutes, she said.She saw at least one person get shot.“I was about to leave, and I just heard this pop,” Ms. Munro said, after she and her baby were led to a nearby surf lifesaving club, an organization that promotes beach safety, where someone bandaged her scraped knees.As the last of the sunlight disappeared from Bondi Beach on Sunday, dozens of people were still sheltering inside nearby shops and restaurants. Finn Foster, 18, a backpacker from Canada, said he and his girlfriend had been headed to McDonald’s to get ice cream when they heard what sounded like fireworks.They started seeing panicked people sprinting away from the beach, jumping over cars and scaling concrete walls, pulling their children along.“Pow, pow, pow,” he said. “Like 15 or 20.”Gabby Sobelman and Aaron Boxerman contributed reporting.“The Jewish community has a right to feel safe,” Mal Lanyon, the police commissioner for the state of New South Wales, told reporters.The police in Australia said at least one gunman was dead after an attack that targeted the Jewish community in Sydney on Sunday. At least 29 were injured and 11 others were dead.Video{"fit":"cover","play":true,"muted":true,"loop":false,"visibleOnPageLoad":false,"aspectRatio":"3:2","src":[{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg_1080p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":1080,"width":1620},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg_720p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":720,"width":1080},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg_480p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":480,"width":720},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg_360p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":360,"width":540},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg_240p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":240,"width":360},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/hls/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg/master.m3u8","type":"hls","filterQuality":[1080]},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/hlsfmp4/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg/master.m3u8","type":"hlsfmp4","filterQuality":[1080]}],"captions":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157174_1_14visualUploader-49659_wg_1080p.vtt","durationInSeconds":31,"startTime":0,"trackingData":{"contentId":"100000010586365","mData":{"videoName":"","analyticsId":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/embedded/admin/100000010586365/14visualUploader-49659.html","videoUri":"nyt://video/ed30c799-a388-5ff3-b2ec-9a07e4f1d846","playerType":"nyt-betamax","videoType":"video","aspectRatio":"3:2","playerVersion":"Live"}}}{"visibleWhen":["before-play"]}{"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/12/14/14visualUploader-49659-cover/14visualUploader-49659-cover-threeByTwoLargeAt2X.jpg"}{"controls":["play","fullscreen","mute","share","scrubber"]}CreditCredit...Seven Network, via ReutersA witness captured footage of people running away from Bondi Beach as gunshots rang out on Sunday.Video{"fit":"cover","play":true,"muted":true,"loop":false,"visibleOnPageLoad":false,"aspectRatio":"3:2","src":[{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg_1080p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":1080,"width":1620},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg_720p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":720,"width":1080},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg_480p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":480,"width":720},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg_360p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":360,"width":540},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg_240p.mp4","type":"mp4","height":240,"width":360},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/hls/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg/master.m3u8","type":"hls","filterQuality":[1080]},{"src":"https://vp.nyt.com/video/hlsfmp4/2025/12/14/157173_1_14visualUploader-2568_wg/master.m3u8","type":"hlsfmp4","filterQuality":[1080]}],"durationInSeconds":7,"startTime":0,"trackingData":{"contentId":"100000010586344","mData":{"videoName":"","analyticsId":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/embedded/admin/100000010586344/14visualUploader-2568.html","videoUri":"nyt://video/ef2172c8-6a40-5493-a215-1d59967b65a0","playerType":"nyt-betamax","videoType":"video","aspectRatio":"3:2","playerVersion":"Live"}}}{"visibleWhen":["before-play"]}{"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/12/14/14visualUploader-2568-cover/14visualUploader-2568-cover-threeByTwoLargeAt2X.jpg"}{"controls":["play","fullscreen","mute","share","scrubber"]}CreditCredit...Mike Ortiz, via AFPAn emissary with the Jewish organization Chabad in Australia was killed in the shooting, Motti Seligson, Chabad’s media director, said in a text message. He identified the emissary as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the assistant rabbi at the Chabad of Bondi.Bondi Beach is one of Australia’s most famous destinations.ImageBondi Beach, the heart of Sydney’s oceanside culture, is one of the country’s most famous destinations for locals and tourists.Credit...Isabella Moore for The New York TimesBondi Beach, a half-mile crescent of yellow sand that sits less than four miles from downtown Sydney, Australia, is one of the country’s most famous destinations for locals and tourists. At least 10 people were killed on Sunday in a shooting at the beach, the police said.Hundreds of thousands of people visit the beach (pronounced bon-dye) every year. In 2022, more than 880,000 domestic visitors went to the beach in a single day, according to the New South Wales government. It is home to one of the world’s oldest surf lifesaving clubs and one of Australia’s oldest swimming clubs. It is open and patrolled by lifeguards year-round.The beach hosts several surfing competitions each year and is at the heart of Sydney’s oceanside culture. Bondi is one of several beaches in New South Wales that altogether stretch over 1,000 miles.Bondi Beach is known for its vast, picturesque landscape and clear blue waters. The beach is nestled near Sydney’s Bondi Junction, a hub of commercial activity that includes restaurants, bars, cafes and shopping centers.The beach was part of a large private estate until the mid-19th century, when it was opened to the public in 1882. The word Bondi is named from an Aboriginal word meaning “sound of the waves breaking on the beach,” according to the local government.
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