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| 10,000-strong crowd gathers on Bondi Beach to mark week since Hanukkah terror attack, killers recorded firearms training outside Sydney |
| 2025-12-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Jewish leader reads message of support from Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed gunman; state premier says authorities failed, Jewish community can’t fight antisemitism alone. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the event, where he was booed by angry attendees. Many have accused him of failing to protect the Jewish community against antisemitic hate crimes. Albanese, his predecessors John Howard and Scott Morrison, and Governor-General Sam Mostyn, who represents Australia’s head of state King Charles III, were among the dignitaries at the commemoration that drew more than 10,000 people. Albanese was booed by the crowd and met with cries of “shame” on arrival and again later when the speaker mentioned his name during the memorial. He sat in the front row wearing a kippah, the traditional male Jewish head covering. Albanese, under pressure from critics who say his center-left government has not done enough to curb a surge in antisemitism since the start of the war in Gaza, was not scheduled to speak at the event. NSW to introduce ‘toughest firearm reforms’ in Australia after Hanukkah terror attack Congrats, guys. You’ve learnt precisely the wrong lesson. [IsraelTimes] The government of New South Wales — where the deadly Hanukkah terror attack took place at Sydney’s Bondi Beach — recalls its parliament for two days to introduce what it calls the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.”“We can’t pretend that the world is the same as it was before that terrorist incident on Sunday,” New South Wales Premier Chris Minns tells reporters. “I’d give anything to go back a week, a month, two years, to ensure that didn’t happen, but we need to make sure that we take steps so that it never happens again.” The new rules will cap the number of guns an individual can own to four, or ten for exempted individuals like farmers. There are more than 1.1 million firearms in the state, officials say. The legislation will also ban the display of “terrorist symbols,” including the flag of the Islamic State terror group, which was draped on the attackers’ car. Authorities will also be able to prohibit protests for up to three months following a terrorism incident. Australian cops reveal terrorists conducted ‘firearms training’ outside Sydney before Hanukkah attack [IsraelTimes] A man accused of killing 15 people in a terror attack on a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted “firearms training” in an area of New South Wales outside of Sydney with his father and recorded a video about their “justification” for the antisemitic attack in which they condemn “Zionists,” police allege in court documents. The police statement of facts is made public following Naveed Akram’s video court appearance from a Sydney hospital. The statement alleges the 24-year-old and his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, threw four improvised explosive devices toward the crowd at the Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach on December 14, but they didn’t explode. It also says they made a “reconnaissance” trip to Bondi beach just days before the mass shooting. According to police, a video file found on one of the accused’s phone shows the two sitting in front of an Islamic State flag, reciting a passage from the Quran and making statements “regarding their motivation for the ‘Bondi attack.'” The New South Wales court media unit cannot immediately provide a copy of the statement. |
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