On 14 December 2025, a terrorist mass shooting occurred at Archer Park beside Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, in the late afternoon during a Hanukkah celebration attended by approximately one thousand people. Two gunmen shot at the crowd, killing 15 people, including a child. Police and Australian intelligence agencies declared it an Islamic State–linked terrorist incident. Numerous world leaders, news outlets, and Australian authorities said the shooting was motivated by antisemitism.

2025 Bondi Beach shooting
The gunmen at the Campbell Parade footbridge; Archer Park is to the left

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Location of the shooting in Sydney
LocationArcher Park, Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date14 December 2025 (2025-12-14)
c. 18:47[1] (AEDT, UTC+11:00)
TargetJews at a Hanukkah celebration
Attack type
Mass shooting
Weapons
Deaths16 (including one perpetrator)
Injured40 (including one perpetrator)
Perpetrators Islamic State–linked gunmen
Assailants2 (father and son)
MotiveAntisemitism inspired by Islamic Statism[4][5]

New South Wales Police Force killed one perpetrator and took the other, critically injured, into custody. Police said the alleged gunmen were father and son. Forty people, including at least two police officers, were injured and taken to various hospitals. The police later found and removed a suspected homemade bomb from a car belonging to one of the shooters. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese said it was a deliberate attack on Jewish people during the first day of Hanukkah.

The shooting is Australia's deadliest terror incident and its second-deadliest mass shooting in modern history after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which led to the country having some of the strictest gun laws in the world.

Background

Bondi Beach is one of Australia's most popular seaside areas. It is located in Sydney's eastern suburbs; this area is known as the centre of the Jewish community of Sydney, which in turn is one of the two largest Jewish communities in Australia (the other being in Melbourne).[6] The Bondi area of Sydney had experienced recent heightened security concerns due to the unrelated Bondi Junction stabbings in April 2024.[7][8]

Australia had experienced an increase in attacks on Jewish communities and individuals since the beginning of the Gaza war in October 2023.[9][10] In August 2024, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) lifted Australia's national terrorism threat level from "possible" to "probable", citing the risk of community tensions and political violence related to the Gaza war as one of the reasons for doing so.[11][12]

The incident took place at an annual Chabad community event ("Chanukah by the Sea"), to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah.[13][14] The event was being held at Archer Park just east of the Bondi Pavilion, and some 1,000 people were attending.[1]

Australia had some of the strictest gun laws in the world enacted after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.[15] Assault rifles and many semiautomatic rifles were banned.[16] Despite this, the number of firearms in Australia, and the number of people licensed to own them, has increased since then. In New South Wales, the state where the Bondi Beach shooting took place, there were 260,000 gun licences in 2025, up from 181,000 in 2001.[17][18]

Attack

 
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External videos
  Bondi terrorist disarmed by heroic witness
  Drone footage of the final moments of active fire
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  Extensive Al Jazeera compilation

In a prologue to the mass shooting, a Russian-Jewish couple, who had noticed an Islamic State flag displayed on the attackers' vehicle while walking along Campbell Parade, attempted to stop them. The husband seized the elder attacker's gun after the latter exited his car, resulting in a struggle that the wife joined, but the attacker retrieved another gun and shot them dead.[19][20]

Initial videos of the mass shooting showed two men dressed in black tops firing on the crowd from a footbridge striding the carpark to the north of the Bondi Pavilion,[21][22] reportedly with at least one bolt action rifle.[23] Emergency services were first called to the scene at 18:47 (AEDT, UTC+11).[24] New South Wales Police released a statement at 18:57 confirming their response to an ongoing incident.[25]

One of the shooters appeared to be waving away bystanders before resuming fire at the Jewish gathering.[26][better source needed]

A bystander began capturing a nearly continuous 11-minute video shortly after the gunmen opened fire, filming from approximately 50 metres (160 ft) away. Ultimately it captured the first police officer stepping onto the pedestrian bridge as well as wounded festival-goers being treated.[1]

The older gunman, while aiming down his sights and firing from a side of Archer Park, was briefly disarmed by an unarmed male named Ahmed al-Ahmed, who had been crouching behind two parked cars.[27][28][29][30] After approaching from between two parked cars, he tackled the gunman from behind, seized his weapon and turned it on him.[31] The shooter retreated to the bridge where the younger gunman was positioned. As he did so, Reuven Morrison charged the scene and was killed while throwing bricks in another attempt to disrupt the attack.[19]

A police officer then arrived and, using a tree as cover, fired on the gunmen.[32] Both gunmen were hit by police gunfire, and another bystander went onto the bridge and kicked away a weapon from one of the gunmen; continued fire forced him to duck, and he was briefly mistaken for an attacker by bystanders.[33]

One of the attackers was shot dead by police, with the other being apprehended and rushed to hospital in critical condition under police guard.[21][34][35] They had fired a total of 103 rounds.[36]

As the attack took place next to the Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club, lifeguards celebrating the holidays rushed to the aid of the victims –such was the immediacy of their response that some ran in under fire. Virtually all of the first aid supplies of the clubhouse were used.[37][38]

Victims

 
Floral tributes to victims of Bondi Beach shooting

The death toll from the attack was 16, with 14 having died at the scene (including one of the gunmen) and 2 in hospital.[39][40] The ages of the dead ranged from 10 to 87 years.[39] Forty-two people were injured, including the other gunman and four children, and were taken to hospital with two later dying in hospital.[39] As of 16 December, 24 people remain in hospital including the gunman and two police officers.[41]

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said one Israeli was killed and another was injured.[42] French national and Rockdale Ilinden FC player Dan Elkayam[43][44] and Randwick DRUFC manager Peter Meagher[45][46] were killed. Chabad rabbis Eli Schlanger[47] and Yaakov Levitan, along with Chabad community member Reuven Morrison, were killed,[48] and several other emissaries were wounded.[47] Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian-born Holocaust survivor, was also killed while shielding his wife.[49][50] Slovak citizen Marika Pogany was also among those killed in the attack.[51] The youngest fatality was a 10-year-old girl named Matilda.[52]

It was the second-deadliest mass shooting in modern Australian history,[failed verificationsee discussion] behind the 1996 Port Arthur massacre,[53][54][55] and its deadliest terror incident.[56]

Investigation

The police commissioner of New South Wales, Mal Lanyon, designated the shooting a terrorist incident.[57] Australian intelligence officials said one of the offenders was known to them.[57] After the shooting, two improvised explosive devices were located in the suspects' vehicle, and a third nearby.[58] The bombs were safely removed by the police bomb squad.[34][59]

Suspects

According to the New South Wales police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, the shooters were a father and son, aged 50 and 24.[60][61] According to the Telangana Police, in the Indian state of Telangana, the father was an Indian national originally from Tolichowki, Hyderabad, who immigrated to Australia in 1998 on a student visa after obtaining a business degree in Hyderabad and married a European woman in Australia but had since retained his Indian passport.[62][63] According to the Australian home affairs minister, Tony Burke, he transferred to a partner visa in 2001 and later obtained a resident return visa.[64] The son, born 2001, is an Australian-born citizen.[61]

The father was killed by police at the scene of the attack, while the son was hospitalized in critical condition and awoke from a coma two days later.[65]

The father was a member of a gun club and possessed at least six licensed firearms which police believe were used in the attack.[66][67] The son had been known to intelligence officials since 2019 but was deemed "not an immediate threat".[61] As a teenager, he followed radical Islamic preacher[68] Wissam Haddad, who was found to have violated Australia's racial hatred laws in 2025. He regularly worshipped at Haddad's Bankstown prayer space, the Al Madina Dawah Centre. Videos from 2019 show him proselytising and distributing pamphlets for the Street Dawah Movement. Weeks later, police arrested several associates of the Movement, including Isaac El Matari, a self-declared Australian commander of Islamic State (IS) and a friend of the son. El Matari is serving a seven-year sentence for plotting an insurgency and attempting to acquire firearms. Another associate, Radwan Dakkak, received 18 months for IS membership and distributing propaganda. Despite these connections, authorities concluded the son was not a high risk member of this network.[69] Police said both gunmen had pledged allegiance to IS,[61][70][71] and two IS flags were found in their car.[72][73]

Following a police raid on a property in Bonnyrigg, a man and a woman were taken into custody.[74] Police also raided a Campsie home where the pair were believed to have been staying prior to the attack.[60] The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the pair had told family members they were going on a fishing trip to Jervis Bay.[60] Investigators were looking into a trip the two suspects made to the Philippines a month before the attack, to see whether they received military training there.[75][76] According to Filipino officials, the men traveled to Manila on 1 November, the father on an Indian passport and the son on an Australian one, and then headed south to Davao City, Mindanao, where an IS insurgency is ongoing.[77] They left the country on 28 November.[78]

Aftermath

Queensland police increased their security presence at Jewish places of worship.[79] Across Australia and New Zealand, Jewish events were cancelled due to the security risks from terror threats, after already having had to cancel many public events in recent years due to the high risk of attacks.[80][81][79]

On the day following the shooting, the National Cabinet unanimously agreed to strengthen gun laws. Proposals brought forward during the meeting included restricting firearm ownership to Australian citizens only, accelerating the launch of a national firearms register, limiting the number of firearms a single person can own, and further restricting the types of legal weapons.[82]

In response to the attack, Victorian premier Jacinta Allan increased funding for security services for Jewish spaces.[83] After a Lifeblood request for O-negative blood donations, over 50,000 people volunteered to donate blood.[84]

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese vowed to advocate for stricter gun laws following the attack.[61] The Premier of New South Wales, Chris Minns, said "the reports and images coming out of Bondi tonight are deeply distressing" and encouraged people to follow the directions of police.[34] Additionally, he referred to the bystander who intervened, as a "real-life hero" in a visit to his hospital room. Albanese shared these sentiments in his own visit.[85] The minister for home affairs, Tony Burke, called the shooting an "appalling act of violence".[86] Australia's head of state King Charles III said he and Queen Camilla were "appalled and saddened by the most dreadful antisemitic terrorist attack on Jewish people".[87]

The CEO of the Australian Jewish Association, Robert Gregory, said: "This is an attack on the Jewish community that deeply pains us as a community."[88][89] The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler, said "an attack on Jews celebrating their faith is an attack on Australia itself. It is an assault on our values, our social cohesion, and the basic right of people to gather without fear."[47] The Australian National Imams Council also condemned the shooting, saying "this is a moment for all Australians, including the Australian Muslim community, to stand together in unity, compassion, and solidarity, rejecting violence in all its forms and affirming our shared commitment to social harmony and the safety of all Australians".[86] Muslim leaders in Sydney refused to perform funeral rites or receive the deceased gunman's body, condemning the shooting as a "barbaric, criminal, and terrorist act".[90] The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network condemned the attack and said the perpetrators did not represent their movement or their values.[91]

In other areas of Sydney, Jewish community infrastructure such as synagogues and schools were closed on 15 December.[92]

International

The attack was widely condemned internationally. Press statements were disseminated by the New Zealand prime minister, Christopher Luxon,[93] and armed police in New Zealand were deployed on 15 December to guard Jewish sites across the country, including the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand and Kadimah School.[94]

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi condemned the attack adding that "India has zero tolerance towards terrorism and supports the fight against all forms and manifestations of terrorism."[95] Further press statements were disseminated by UK prime minister Keir Starmer[87][96] and US president Donald Trump.[97] French president Emmanuel Macron expressed "deep sadness" at the death of a French citizen.[98][99]

Additionally, many international leaders spoke in support of the bystander who intervened, praising his bravery and specifying him as an exemplar of the Islamic faith. These leaders included Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu[100] Netanyahu blamed the Albanese government for "pouring fuel on this antisemitic fire" as a result of policies including recognition of Palestine that September.[96] Albanese later rejected the accusations.[101]

Iranian state media made multiple different statements regarding the massacre. The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a condemnation of the shooting, whilst Tasnim News Agency and Sabereen News praised the killings.[a] Other outlets such as Mehr News Agency accused the attack of being a false flag operation by Israel, a claim also promoted by IRGC military officer Mohammad Reza Naghdi.[103]

The attack was also widely condemned across the Islamic world, with several countries voicing strong disapproval, though Taliban-run Afghanistan did not issue any statement or reaction.[104]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Sabereen News is published in Iraq, but is believed to have ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.[102]

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