Sydney's Bondi Beach shooting during a Hanukkah event. Two gunmen killed 16 people and injured 29 in an attack targeting Australia's Jewish community

The hero that stopped one of the terrorists in Australia is called Ahmad Al Ahmad. He is a Christian Maronite! 

• the deadliest mass shooting since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
• Authorities, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, classified the incident as terrorism, with one shooter killed and another in custody; preliminary reports link the attackers to Islamist extremism amid rising global antisemitism post-October 2023 Hamas attacks.

• Global leaders are reacting to the shooting at Bondi Beach, with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying the UK "will always stand with Australia and the Jewish community".

• "The news that the Bondi beach attack was an antisemitic terrorist attack against Jewish families at a Chanukah event is sickening," Starmer writes on X. He says the government is actively working with the CST, the UK's Jewish security organisation, on the policing of Chanukah events.

• French President Emmanuel Macron says: "In Sydney, an antisemitic terrorist attack struck families gathered to celebrate Hanukkah.

  "We share the pain of the Australian people and will continue to fight relentlessly against antisemitic hatred, which hurts us all, wherever it strikes."

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Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of lights, marking the miracle where the oil to light the Hanukkah lights that should have only lasted one night lasted for eight nights. It is a time of joy and celebration, a time of presents and of family, particularly loved by children. It is a time when the light is supposed to extinguish the darkness.