Among the 15 victims of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah were a couple who tried to thwart the attack, and others who died shielding friends and family,

When shots ran out at a Hanukkah celebration on Australia's Bondi Beach, Arsen Ostrovsky said he thought it could've been balloons popping.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the Syrian-Australian father who wrestled a shotgun from one of the gunmen attacking a Jewish gathering, is facing a long road to recovery.

Mourners on Thursday laid to rest the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney: 10-year-old Matilda, who had been enjoying the Hanukkah festivities with her family when the gunmen opened fire.

When a gunman murdered 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, Australia's political leaders united to implement some of the West's toughest gun laws. Nearly three decades later, after 15 people were killed at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach,

The gray arched footbridge, just a few meters from the grassy park where Jewish people gathered to celebrate Hanukkah last Sunday, gave the Bondi Beach gunmen an elevated vantage point over the crowd they attacked.

Declared a terror attack by police, it is the deadliest in Australian history. Dozens were injured and 15 people - including a 10-year-old girl - were killed by the two gunmen, who police say were inspired by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration.