"On Sunday, father-and-son gunmen armed with shotguns killed 15 people and injured 40 more at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Their target was Chanukah by the Sea, an annual event run by the Chabad of Bondi. The dead include a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi, and a 10-year-old girl. It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, a tragedy that reshaped the nation."
"It is hard to parse this violence as a person from a country where it is abnormal. It is impossible not to personalize the grief, shock, and confusion. I was scrolling Instagram Stories on a sleepy Sunday arvo when I saw a friend post "just heard what I think are gunshots at Bondi - what's going on?" The events unfolded so rapidly and brutally that it has shocked Australia into a whiplash of the soul that we will be grappling with for years to come."
Father-and-son gunmen armed with shotguns killed fifteen people and injured forty at Bondi Beach during Chanukah by the Sea, an annual Chabad event. The dead include a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi, and a ten-year-old girl. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which had led to strict gun laws that had until now limited such violence. The rapid brutality of the attack shocked Australia and produced national grief and confusion. Authorities said the shooters were motivated by "Islamic State ideology." Political reactions included Benjamin Netanyahu blaming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for recognizing an independent Palestinian state, amid tensions over Israel’s actions in Gaza and Australian responses.
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