News reports identify the Bondi Beach shooters as a 50‑year‑old father and his 24‑year‑old son who carried out a terrorist attack targeting a Hanukkah celebration near the beach in Sydney.
What is publicly known
Police and government briefings state that the attack involved two gunmen, described as a father‑and‑son pair aged about 50 and 24, who opened fire on a large crowd gathered for the first night of Hanukkah at Archer Park next to Bondi Beach. The older man, who held multiple firearms licences and was linked to six weapons used in the attack, was shot dead by responding officers at the scene, while the younger man was arrested and remains in critical condition under guard in hospital.
A senior law‑enforcement source cited by Australian media has named one of the alleged attackers as Naveed Akram, from Sydney’s south‑west, though police have not yet released full confirmed identities for both men as of the latest updates. Authorities are treating the incident as an antisemitic terrorist attack directed at the Jewish community, and investigations are continuing into potential additional accomplices or a broader network.
