{"id":261368,"date":"2025-12-14T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=261368"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:28:27","slug":"australia-beach-shooting-12-people-confirmed-dead-and-several-injured-in-terrorist-attack-on-jewish-community-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/australia-beach-shooting-12-people-confirmed-dead-and-several-injured-in-terrorist-attack-on-jewish-community-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Beach shooting: 12 people confirmed dead and several injured in terrorist attack on Jewish community event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC<\/strong>– The first day of Hanukkah was a sweltering one in Sydney – a perfect afternoon to spend at Australia’s most iconic beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 1,000 people were enjoying a festival marking the occasion at a grassy stretch in Bondi: kids careened around in facepaint, crowds snaked between food trucks, and many enjoyed live entertainment as they soaked up the last rays of sunshine.<\/p>

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Then, just before 7pm local time, shots rang out.<\/p>

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From a small footbridge – just metres from a children’s playground – gunmen fired upon the fenced-in crowds. A car full of improvised bombs was parked nearby, though they never went off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One attendee, who identified himself only as Barry, described watching people around him get shot as hundreds of beach-goers began screaming and running through the park to get away from the attack.<\/p>

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“It was pandemonium and chaos,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n