Jewish, Australia and Hanukkah
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Australia, Bondi Beach and shooting
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A Holocaust survivor, a 10-year-old and a Chabad rabbi were among the 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Australia's Bondi Beach on Sunday. Hundreds of people had gathered to mark the first day of the Jewish festival before the attackers struck at the event in Sydney.
By Byron Kaye and Pete Mckenzie SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Days after Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was spray-painted on the front of a Jewish bakery in Sydney,
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Sydney beach that killed at least 11 people an act of antisemitism and terrorism.
A troubling rise in antisemitic attacks and incidents in recent years have left some feeling anger after the kind of deadly attack they felt was sure to happen.
Members of Sydney’s Jewish community, and many other Australians, gathered at the site of a mass shooting on Bondi Beach to offer condolences and ask questions.