At least 12 people were killed, including a child, and 29 injured in a shooting on Sydney's Bondi Beach on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, Australian police and the Australian Prime Minister have described the attack as a terrorist attack.

One perpetrator known to authorities

One of the perpetrators was shot dead by police, while the second is in a critical condition, according to a statement by New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon.

According to Australian media reports, one of the gunmen was identified as Naveed Akram from Pakistan who lived in Bonnyrigg, southwest of Sydney.

🚨🚨Islamic terror attack in Australia!

At least 10 people were killed after two terrorists opened fire at Sydney's Bondi Beach

One of the terrorists has been identified as Naveed Akram a Pakistani

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Authorities raided his home, however, it is not yet known what they found.

Police are searching for evidence of the second attacker, while examining the possibility of a third gunman being involved in the attack. .

Mike Burgess, a senior Australian intelligence official, said one of the suspects in the attack was known to authorities but had not been assessed as an immediate threat.

The authorities announced that they found an explosive device in a car on Campbell Parade, which was removed by specialist firemen.

According to Lanyon, the explosive device in the car is linked to the perpetrator who fell dead.

The timeline of the attack

The incident took place at around 6:30 pm on Sunday (local time), on a warm summer evening at the famous Bondi Beach, where around 1,000 people were there for the Hanukkah event alone.

According to witnesses, the shooting lasted about 10 minutes, during which scenes of chaos prevailed, with hundreds of people running frantically for shelter.

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"I was getting ready to go home, I was putting my things in my bag, I got my flip-flops, I was ready to take the bus and then I started hearing the gunshots," said 38-year-old Marcos Carvalho, a resident of the area.

"We all panicked and started running. We left everything behind and just ran towards the hill," he said."I must have heard, I don't know, maybe 40, 50 shots."

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"At first you just think it's a beautiful day at the beach. You see people having fun. And all of a sudden, you see people running past you and saying there's a shooter, there's a mass shooting going on and people are being killed," said Grace Matthew, also a resident of Bodie.

A video-documentary captures the moment when one of the perpetrators falls dead from police gunfire on a small bridge leading to the beach.

The two terrorists in Bondi Beach have been neutralized

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The hero who disarmed the second perpetrator

One of the video documents circulating on the internet records the moment a man attacks one of the two perpetrators, managing to disarm him.

The perpetrator walks away, while the citizen-hero does not shoot him, as he does not want to take the law into his own hands, as a witness characteristically reported on television cameras.

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According to Australian media, it was an Arab, 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney resident, father of two and owner of a fruit shop, who was injured during his attempt.

Sunday's deadly incident was the most serious in a series of anti-Semitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars in Australia since the start of Israel's war in Gaza in October 2023.

Mass shootings are rare in Australia, one of the safest countries in the world.

Pathetic terrorists

"This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy, a celebration of faith. [The attack is] an act of viciousness, anti-Semitism, terrorism that has struck at the heart of our country," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Sunday afternoon.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog denounced a brutal attack on Jews and called on Australia to to take more measures to combat anti-Semitism .

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that he had warned his Australian counterpart that his country's policies were encouraging anti-Semitism.

Netanyahu said the attack “was a cold-blooded murder” and that anti-Semitism “spreads when leaders remain silent.”

International disgust

The attack was immediately condemned by leaders from around the world, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who stressed that anti-Semitism and hatred have no place in our societies.

The United States strongly condemns the attack on Sydney's Bondi Beach, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on the social networking platform X.

The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration.

Antisemitism has no place in this world. Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia.

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) December 14, 2025