'We are all devastated': French victim of Bondi Beach attack described as 'bursting with talent'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//15//a-child-a-rabbi-and-a-holocaust-survivor-some-lives-lost-in-bondi-beach-attack/">A child, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor: Lives lost in Bondi Beach attack<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Authorities probe suspects' trip to Philippines<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The suspects travelled to the Philippines last month, said Mal Lanyon, the police commissioner for New South Wales state. The reasons for the trip and where in the Philippines they went would be probed by investigators, Lanyon said.<\/p>\n<p>He also confirmed that a vehicle removed from the scene, registered to the younger suspect, contained improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>\"I also confirm that it contained two homemade IS flags,\" Lanyon said.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines Bureau of Immigration confirmed on Tuesday that Sajid Akram travelled to the country from 1 to 28 November, along with his son, Naveed, with the city of Davao as their final destination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//46//28//808x539_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg/" alt=\"Police and military secure the site of an explosion in the town of Jolo suspected to have been carried out by Abu Sayyaf militants, 24 August, 2020 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/640x426_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/828x551_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/1080x719_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/1200x799_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/1920x1279_cmsv2_1a6672ee-0d20-56a4-af7f-aa7624ee5b49-9584628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Police and military secure the site of an explosion in the town of Jolo suspected to have been carried out by Abu Sayyaf militants, 24 August, 2020 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Australian authorities have not named the younger suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Groups of Muslim separatist militants, including Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, once expressed support for the so-called Islamic State group and have hosted small numbers of foreign militant combatants from Asia, the Middle East and Europe in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of military offensives, however, have considerably weakened Abu Sayyaf and other such armed groups and Philippine military and police officials say there has been no recent indication of any foreign militants in the country's south.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Calls for stricter gun laws<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Albanese and the leaders of some of Australia's states have pledged to tighten the country\u2019s already strict gun laws in what would be the most sweeping reforms since a shooter killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996. Mass shootings in Australia have since been rare.<\/p>\n<p>Officials gave more information as public questions and anger grew on the third day following the attack about how the suspects were able to plan and enact it and whether Australian Jews had been sufficiently protected from rising antisemitism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//46//28//808x539_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg/" alt=\"Mourners gather at a menorah lighting ceremony at a floral memorial for victims of Sunday's shooting at the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach, 16 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/28\/1920x1280_cmsv2_35858b50-3714-58da-8a81-f4a7b65a9ed7-9584628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Mourners gather at a menorah lighting ceremony at a floral memorial for victims of Sunday's shooting at the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach, 16 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Albanese announced plans to further restrict access to guns, in part because it emerged the older suspect had amassed his cache of six weapons legally.<\/p>\n<p>\"The suspected murderers, callous in how they allegedly coordinated their attack, appeared to have no regard for the age or ableness of their victims,\" said Barrett.<\/p>\n<p> \"It appears the alleged killers were interested only in a quest for a death 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BEACH HERO - WHAT WE KNOW","daletPyramidId":3617645,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Bondi Beach hero al-Ahmed who tackled shooter raises \u20ac1.2m in donations","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Bondi Beach hero who tackled shooter raises \u20ac1.2m in donations","titleListing2":"Bondi Beach hero who tackled shooter raises \u20ac1.2m in donations","leadin":"The Syrian-born father of two has been hailed as a hero after tackling and disarming one of the gunmen during the Bondi Beach shooting on Sunday that killed 15 people.","summary":"The Syrian-born father of two has been hailed as a hero after tackling and disarming one of the gunmen during the Bondi Beach shooting on Sunday that killed 15 people.","keySentence":"","url":"bondi-beach-hero-al-ahmed-who-tackled-shooter-raises-12m-in-donations","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/16\/bondi-beach-hero-al-ahmed-who-tackled-shooter-raises-12m-in-donations","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Donations and tributes have poured in for a man dubbed the \"Bondi hero\" after he tackled and disarmed one of the alleged attackers during the deadly mass shooting at a Jewish celebration at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach on Sunday.\n\nAhmed al-Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, was captured on video sneaking up behind one of the gunmen, grabbing him and wrestling away his firearm.\n\nThe 43-year-old was then seen pointing the man's weapon at him before setting it on the ground and raising his hands, apparently to indicate that he did not pose a threat.\n\nDuring the incident, al-Ahmed was shot twice by the second gunman, suffering injuries to his shoulder and hand, according to his family. He underwent surgery on Sunday night and is now in a stable condition, awaiting further treatment for his shotgun wounds.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese visited al-Ahmed \u2014 a Syrian-born Australian citizen \u2014 at Saint George Hospital in Sydney on Tuesday and paid tribute to the fruit shop owner.\n\n\"It was a great honour to meet Ahmed al-Ahmed. He is a true Australian hero,\" Albanese said after meeting him and his parents.\n\n\"We are a brave country. Ahmed al-Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided.\"\n\nAl-Ahmed has also been praised by leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. The latter said al-Ahmed was \"a very, very brave person\" who had saved many lives.\n\nCrowdfunding campaign\n\nA GoFundMe campaign set up for al-Ahmed has raised more than A$2.2 million (\u20ac1.24 m).\n\n\"We're seeing an outpouring of love for Ahmed al-Ahmed following his heroic actions at Bondi Beach. We\u2019re working directly with organisers to ensure funds safely reach Ahmed and his family,\" GoFundMe said in a post on X on Monday.\n\nSeveral strangers have left flowers outside of Saint George Hospital and al-Ahmed's shuttered fruit shop in a show of support, according to local media reports.\n\nAl-Ahmed moved from Syria to Sydney in 2006, his relatives told Australian media. His father, Mohamed Fateh al-Ahmed, said that his son was having coffee with a friend in the area on Sunday afternoon when he heard the gunshots and decided to intervene.\n\n\"My son is a hero. He served in the police, he has the passion to defend people,\" Mohamed Fateh told ABC News. It is unclear which police force al-Ahmed served in.\n\nAl-Ahmed's mother, Malakeh Hasan al-Ahmed, said she kept \"beating myself up and crying\" after receiving the call that her son had been shot.\n\n\"I'm proud that my son was helping people, rescuing people,\" she said.\n\n\"He saw they were dying, and people were losing their lives, and when that guy [the attacker] ran out of ammo, he took [the gun] from him, but he was hit.\"\n\nAl-Ahmed's parents said they had arrived in Sydney from Syria just a couple of months ago.\n\nSuspects linked to Islamic State group\n\nFifteen people were killed in the attack, which occurred around 6:45 pm local time on Sunday at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration attended by around 1,000 people. It was the country's worst mass shooting in nearly three decades.\n\nPolice have said that the two suspects were a father and son. The 50-year-old father was killed by police at the scene, while the son, 24, is being treated in hospital.\n\nAustralia's Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barret said on Tuesday that the shooting was \"a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State\".\n\nAlbanese said that the assessment was based on evidence including the \"presence of Islamic State flags\" in a seized vehicle.\n\nTwenty-five people are still being treated in hospitals after Sunday's massacre, 10 of them in critical condition. Three of them are patients in a children's hospital.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Donations and tributes have poured in for a man dubbed the \"Bondi hero\" after he tackled and disarmed one of the alleged attackers during the deadly mass shooting at a Jewish celebration at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, was captured on video sneaking up behind one of the gunmen, grabbing him and wrestling away his firearm. <\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old was then seen pointing the man's weapon at him before setting it on the ground and raising his hands, apparently to indicate that he did not pose a threat.<\/p>\n<p>During the incident, al-Ahmed was shot twice by the second gunman, suffering injuries to his shoulder and hand, according to his family. He underwent surgery on Sunday night and is now in a stable condition, awaiting further treatment for his shotgun wounds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//43//90//808x454_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg/" alt=\"A tribute at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday's shooting in Sydney, Australia.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/384x216_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/640x360_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/750x422_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/828x466_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/1080x608_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/1200x675_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/1920x1080_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A tribute at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday's shooting in Sydney, Australia.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mark Baker\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited al-Ahmed \u2014 a Syrian-born Australian citizen \u2014 at Saint George Hospital in Sydney on Tuesday and paid tribute to the fruit shop owner.<\/p>\n<p>\"It was a great honour to meet Ahmed al-Ahmed. He is a true Australian hero,\" Albanese said after meeting him and his parents. <\/p>\n<p>\"We are a brave country. Ahmed al-Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided.\"<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahmed has also been praised by leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. The latter said al-Ahmed was \"a very, very brave person\" who had saved many lives.<\/p>\n<h2>Crowdfunding campaign<\/h2>\n<p>A GoFundMe campaign set up for al-Ahmed has raised more than A$2.2 million (\u20ac1.24 m).<\/p>\n<p>\"We're seeing an outpouring of love for Ahmed al-Ahmed following his heroic actions at Bondi Beach. We\u2019re working directly with organisers to ensure funds safely reach Ahmed and his family,\" GoFundMe said in a post on X on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Several strangers have left flowers outside of Saint George Hospital and al-Ahmed's shuttered fruit shop in a show of support, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//16//australia-mourns-youngest-bondi-shooting-victim-as-family-attends-vigil/">Australia mourns youngest Bondi shooting victim as family attends vigil<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//bondi-beach-shooting-what-we-know-so-far/">Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Al-Ahmed moved from Syria to Sydney in 2006, his relatives told Australian media. His father, Mohamed Fateh al-Ahmed, said that his son was having coffee with a friend in the area on Sunday afternoon when he heard the gunshots and decided to intervene. <\/p>\n<p>\"My son is a hero. He served in the police, he has the passion to defend people,\" Mohamed Fateh told ABC News. It is unclear which police force al-Ahmed served in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//43//90//808x454_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg/" alt=\"Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center, visits the Bondi Pavilion where he laid flowers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after the shooting\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/384x216_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/640x360_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/750x422_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/828x466_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/1080x608_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/1200x675_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/1920x1080_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center, visits the Bondi Pavilion where he laid flowers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after the shooting<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">DEAN LEWINS\/AAP IMAGE<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Al-Ahmed's mother, Malakeh Hasan al-Ahmed, said she kept \"beating myself up and crying\" after receiving the call that her son had been shot. <\/p>\n<p>\"I'm proud that my son was helping people, rescuing people,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>\"He saw they were dying, and people were losing their lives, and when that guy [the attacker] ran out of ammo, he took [the gun] from him, but he was hit.\"<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahmed's parents said they had arrived in Sydney from Syria just a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Suspects linked to Islamic State group<\/h2>\n<p>Fifteen people were killed in the attack, which occurred around 6:45 pm local time on Sunday at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration attended by around 1,000 people. It was the country's worst mass shooting in nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Police have said that the two suspects were a father and son. The 50-year-old father was killed by police at the scene, while the son, 24, is being treated in hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Australia's Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barret said on Tuesday that the shooting was \"a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State\". <\/p>\n<p>Albanese said that the assessment was based on evidence including the \"presence of Islamic State flags\" in a seized vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five people are still being treated in hospitals after Sunday's massacre, 10 of them in critical condition. Three of them are patients in a children's hospital.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765876906,"updatedAt":1765984561,"publishedAt":1765882893,"firstPublishedAt":1765882893,"lastPublishedAt":1765882893,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2ea3d20c-ea83-5c57-9376-a35d36231814-9584390.jpg","altText":"In this photo released by the Prime Minister office, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Ahmed al Ahmed at St George Hospital in Sydney, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.","caption":"In this photo released by the Prime Minister office, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Ahmed al Ahmed at St George Hospital in Sydney, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Australian Prime Minister Office\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1011,"height":568},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_eaa0d1e4-5edc-515d-bad8-d9ada895f48f-9584390.jpg","altText":"Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center, visits the Bondi Pavilion where he laid flowers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after the shooting","caption":"Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center, visits the Bondi Pavilion where he laid flowers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after the shooting","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"DEAN LEWINS\/AAP IMAGE","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a6171f92-9b87-56a6-af60-701d58b93f39-9584390.jpg","altText":"A tribute at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday's shooting in Sydney, Australia.","caption":"A tribute at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday's shooting in Sydney, Australia.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mark Baker\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Aerial footage showed the scale of the tribute as police continued their work nearby.\n\nMany said the vigil was about quiet support and refusing to be driven by fear. Among the dead was Matilda, 10, whose surname has not been released. Her grandparents and aunt stood near the site as prayers were offered.\n\nThe shooting happened during Chanukah by the Sea, a Hanukkah event held by Sydney\u2019s Jewish community at Bondi Beach. Fifteen people were killed. Police said the attack was inspired by Islamic State and involved a father and his 24-year-old son. The father died at the scene, while the son remained in hospital.\n\nAcross Sydney, 25 people are still being treated, 10 of them in critical condition.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Crowds gathered near the Bondi Pavilion, where flowers and candles marked the site of the attack. Aerial footage showed the scale of the tribute as police continued their work nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Many said the vigil was about quiet support and refusing to be driven by fear. Among the dead was Matilda, 10, whose surname has not been released. Her grandparents and aunt stood near the site as prayers were offered.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened during Chanukah by the Sea, a Hanukkah event held by Sydney\u2019s Jewish community at Bondi Beach. Fifteen people were killed. Police said the attack was inspired by Islamic State and involved a father and his 24-year-old son. The father died at the scene, while the son remained in hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Across Sydney, 25 people are still being treated, 10 of them in critical condition.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765877103,"updatedAt":1765881480,"publishedAt":1765881056,"firstPublishedAt":1765881056,"lastPublishedAt":1765881056,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/43\/91\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_58049ee0-b48a-5a81-ac34-35a5139b7684-9584391.jpg","altText":"Aerial of huge floral tributes at vigil at Bondi Beach in Sydney","caption":"Aerial of huge floral tributes at vigil at Bondi Beach in Sydney","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":176,"urlSafeValue":"caraco","title":"Alexis Caraco","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13,"slug":"australia","urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","titleRaw":"Australia"},{"id":29352,"slug":"hanukkah","urlSafeValue":"hanukkah","title":"Hanukkah","titleRaw":"Hanukkah"},{"id":13878,"slug":"shooting","urlSafeValue":"shooting","title":"shooting","titleRaw":"shooting"},{"id":10241,"slug":"sydney","urlSafeValue":"sydney","title":"Sydney","titleRaw":"Sydney"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2854600},{"id":2854519},{"id":2854485}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"wW65afcrKsA","dailymotionId":"x9vsq3q"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/ED\/31\/78\/62\/02\/ED_PYR_3178622_20251216092935.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":12422394,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/31\/78\/62\/02\/SHD_PYR_3178622_20251216092935.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":17498404,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"1080p","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/FHD\/31\/78\/62\/02\/FHD_PYR_3178622_20251216092935.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":48671676,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"nocomment","urlSafeValue":"nocomment","title":"No Comment","online":1,"url":"\/nocomment"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":{"id":4198,"urlSafeValue":"sydney","title":"Sydney"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/video\/2025\/12\/16\/australia-mourns-youngest-bondi-shooting-victim-as-family-attends-vigil","lastModified":1765881056},{"id":2854672,"cid":9583211,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Bondi Beach shooting gunmen","daletPyramidId":3606302,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Bondi Beach gunmen had pledged allegiance to Islamic State group","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Bondi Beach gunmen had pledged allegiance to Islamic State group","titleListing2":"Bondi Beach gunmen had pledged allegiance to Islamic State","leadin":"The gunmen, father and son, who killed 15 people at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in Australia, were heavily influenced by extremist ideology. The father, who was killed by police, had a firearm license in a country where such documents are hard to obtain.","summary":"The gunmen, father and son, who killed 15 people at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in Australia, were heavily influenced by extremist ideology. The father, who was killed by police, had a firearm license in a country where such documents are hard to obtain.","keySentence":"","url":"bondi-beach-gunmen-had-pledged-allegiance-to-islamic-state","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/15\/bondi-beach-gunmen-had-pledged-allegiance-to-islamic-state","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Hours after 15 people were killed around a Jewish Hanukkah festival at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach, more and more information about the two gunmen has emerged.\n\nAccording to police, the shooters were 50-year-old fruit shop owner Sajid Akram, who died in a shootout with law enforcement, and his 24-year-old son Naveed, an unemployed bricklayer, who was severely injured and taken to a hospital where he remained in critical but stable condition under police guard.\n\nThe older Akram had arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa, then became a permanent resident in 2001 and later obtained a Resident Return Visa (RRV). This document allowed him to travel overseas and re-enter Australia while keeping his permanent resident status.\n\nHis son was born in Australia and is a citizen.\n\nAustralian media reports said the father hailed from Pakistan, although this has not been confirmed yet by the authorities.\n\nThe men had reportedly pledged allegiance to the radical Islamic State group (IS) and flags of the terrorist group were found in their car where police also discovered at least two improvised explosive devices.\n\nThey told family members they were traveling to the coast for a longer fishing trip.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the gunmen were acting alone and not part of a wider extremist cell.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of collusion,\u201d he said, but they were \u201cclearly motivated by extremist ideology.\u201d\n\nOlder gunman had a gun license - hard to obtain in Australia\n\nThe older Akram had been a licensed firearm holder since 2015 for recreational hunting and was a member of a gun club.\n\nThis license entitled him \u201cto have the long arms he had,\u201d the New South Wales Police Commissioner told reporters.\n\nIn order to obtain a license, the prospective license holder needs to undergo \u201ca thorough examination\u201d to ensure an individual is \u201cfit and proper,\u201d he added.\n\nSajid Akram was licensed to own six firearms, all of which police believe were used in the attack.\n\nAccording to sources inside Australia's counterterrorism community, the country's domestic intelligence agency ASIO took an interest in Naveed Akram six years ago after police foiled plans for an IS terrorist attack.\n\nThe sources said Naveed Akram was closely connected to a man now serving jail time for planning the 2019 attack as the self-declared Australian commander of the terrorist group.\n\nPrime Minister Albanese confirmed the younger Akram first came to authorities\u2019 attention in October 2019, but after a six-month investigation an \u201cassessment was made that there was no indication of any ongoing threat of him engaging in violence\u201d - in other words, there was nothing to charge him with.\n\nFurthermore, the younger Akram studied for one year at Al Murad Institute in Western Sydney, which has strongly condemned the attack.\n\n\"Naveed approached the centre in late 2019 seeking Koran recitation and Arabic language classes,\" the Institute's founder said in a video statement.\n\n\"What I find completely ironic is that the very Koran he was learning to recite clearly states that taking one innocent life is like killing all of humanity,\" he added.\n\nPolice believe the gunmen had prepared for the attack at a short-term rental property around a 30-minute drive from Bondi Beach. There, the two gunmen had been staying for the last two weeks.\n\nThis building is now an intense focus of the investigation. In addition, police raided the gunmen\u2019s family home on Monday night, around an hour\u2019s drive away.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hours after 15 people were killed around a Jewish Hanukkah festival at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach, more and more information about the two gunmen has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the shooters were 50-year-old fruit shop owner Sajid Akram, who died in a shootout with law enforcement, and his 24-year-old son Naveed, an unemployed bricklayer, who was severely injured and taken to a hospital where he remained in critical but stable condition under police guard.<\/p>\n<p>The older Akram had arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa, then became a permanent resident in 2001 and later obtained a Resident Return Visa (RRV). This document allowed him to travel overseas and re-enter Australia while keeping his permanent resident status.<\/p>\n<p>His son was born in Australia and is a citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Australian media reports said the father hailed from Pakistan, although this has not been confirmed yet by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The men had reportedly pledged allegiance to the radical Islamic State group (IS) and flags of the terrorist group were found in their car where police also discovered at least two improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>They told family members they were traveling to the coast for a longer fishing trip. <\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the gunmen were acting alone and not part of a wider extremist cell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of collusion,\u201d he said, but they were \u201cclearly motivated by extremist ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Older gunman had a gun license - hard to obtain in Australia<\/h2>\n<p>The older Akram had been a licensed firearm holder since 2015 for recreational hunting and was a member of a gun club.<\/p>\n<p>This license entitled him \u201cto have the long arms he had,\u201d the New South Wales Police Commissioner told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>In order to obtain a license, the prospective license holder needs to undergo \u201ca thorough examination\u201d to ensure an individual is \u201cfit and proper,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sajid Akram was licensed to own six firearms, all of which police believe were used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources inside Australia's counterterrorism community, the country's domestic intelligence agency ASIO took an interest in Naveed Akram six years ago after police foiled plans for an IS terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said Naveed Akram was closely connected to a man now serving jail time for planning the 2019 attack as the self-declared Australian commander of the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Albanese confirmed the younger Akram first came to authorities\u2019 attention in October 2019, but after a six-month investigation an \u201cassessment was made that there was no indication of any ongoing threat of him engaging in violence\u201d - in other words, there was nothing to charge him with.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the younger Akram studied for one year at Al Murad Institute in Western Sydney, which has strongly condemned the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\"Naveed approached the centre in late 2019 seeking Koran recitation and Arabic language classes,\" the Institute's founder said in a video statement.<\/p>\n<p>\"What I find completely ironic is that the very Koran he was learning to recite clearly states that taking one innocent life is like killing all of humanity,\" he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//bondi-beach-shooting-what-we-know-so-far/">Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//15//a-child-a-rabbi-and-a-holocaust-survivor-some-lives-lost-in-bondi-beach-attack/">A child, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor: Lives lost in Bondi Beach attack<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Police believe the gunmen had prepared for the attack at a short-term rental property around a 30-minute drive from Bondi Beach. There, the two gunmen had been staying for the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This building is now an intense focus of the investigation. In addition, police raided the gunmen\u2019s family home on Monday night, around an hour\u2019s drive away.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765794300,"updatedAt":1765802581,"publishedAt":1765801906,"firstPublishedAt":1765801906,"lastPublishedAt":1765802554,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/11\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bd292503-88b1-503f-89b8-7fbb01194bf5-9583211.jpg","altText":"A couple lay flowers at a tribute to shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. (AP Photo\/Mark Baker)","caption":"A couple lay flowers at a tribute to shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. 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News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":{"id":4198,"urlSafeValue":"sydney","title":"Sydney"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/12\/15\/bondi-beach-gunmen-had-pledged-allegiance-to-islamic-state","lastModified":1765802554},{"id":2854707,"cid":9583308,"versionId":3,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Victims Bondi shooting ","daletPyramidId":3607134,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"A child, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor: Lives lost in Bondi Beach attack","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Children, clergy and survivors among victims of Hanukkah shooting","titleListing2":"A child, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor: Lives lost in Bondi beach attack","leadin":"The victims of the Bondi Beach attack were ordinary people \u2014 children, elders, community leaders, and families \u2014 gathered for a peaceful religious celebration, and several lost their lives while trying to protect others.","summary":"The victims of the Bondi Beach attack were ordinary people \u2014 children, elders, community leaders, and families \u2014 gathered for a peaceful religious celebration, and several lost their lives while trying to protect others.","keySentence":"","url":"a-child-a-rabbi-and-a-holocaust-survivor-some-lives-lost-in-bondi-beach-attack","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/15\/a-child-a-rabbi-and-a-holocaust-survivor-some-lives-lost-in-bondi-beach-attack","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A spirited 10-year-old girl, a prominent assistant rabbi, a Ukrainian-born Holocaust survivor and a young network engineer from France were among roughly 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on families celebrating Hanukkah at Sydney\u2019s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday.\n\nAustralian authorities, who classified the shooting as a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community, have not yet released an official list of victims.\n\nHowever, a day after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Australia, the identities of several victims emerged through social media posts, news reports, and the official website of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, whose Bondi Beach chapter hosted Sunday\u2019s Hanukkah event.\n\nThe Harmony Russian School of Sydney confirmed in a Facebook post that 10-year-old Matilda, \u201ca former student of our school,\u201d had died \u201cin hospital due to injuries sustained from a gunshot.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur thoughts and heartfelt condolences go out to her family, friends, and everyone affected by this tragic event,\u201d the school said.\n\nMatilda\u2019s language teacher, who launched an online fundraising campaign for the family, described her as \u201ca bright, joyful, and spirited child who brought light to everyone around her.\u201d\n\nAccording to Chabad.org, another victim of the mass shooting was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a 41-year-old assistant rabbi at Chabad-Lubavitch of Bondi. Schlanger was on stage leading the Hanukkah ceremony when the two gunmen opened fire.\n\nThe website described him as an \u201cirreplaceable leader of the community\u201d who had become \u201ca vocal advocate for protecting Jewish communities against rising antisemitism.\u201d\n\nEarlier this year, Schlanger had written to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to \u201cact firmly\u201d against terrorism and antisemitism, the website said.\n\nAround 1,000 people flocked to Bondi Beach on Sunday for \u201cChanukah by the Sea,\u201d an annual event marking the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights. The attackers\u2014a father and son\u2014opened fire on the crowd, killing 15 people and wounding at least 40 others, including three children. One of the gunmen was shot dead by police, while the other remains in critical condition.\n\nAmong the fatal casualties was also 87-year-old Alexander Kleytman, a Holocaust survivor, and 27-year-old Dan Elkayam, a French national.\n\nChabad.org confirmed that Kleytman, a \u201cnative of Ukraine,\u201d was killed \u201cwhile shielding his wife from the gunfire.\u201d He is survived by his wife, two children, and 11 grandchildren, the website said.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged Elkayam\u2019s death in the \u201cantisemitic terrorist attack\u201d in an X post published on Monday. \u00a0\u201cMy thoughts are with his family and loved ones, and I extend to them the full solidarity of the Nation,\u201d Macron wrote.\n\nA football fan, Elkayam had spent several years travelling the world and worked in Sydney as a network engineer since 2024, according to his LinkedIn profile. According to some media reports, he tried to protect a young girl during the Bondi attack before he was killed.\n\nJean-Baptiste Borsali, the mayor of Le Bourget, the French city Elkayam came from, also paid tribute to the young man, saying his death \u201cfar from his relatives\u201d and \u201cin such tragic circumstances\u201d had \u201cdeeply shaken us.\u201d\n\nAdditional victims reported by Chabad include Yaakov Levitan, a rabbi affiliated with BINA, a Sydney-based Jewish organisation and Reuven Morrison, a \u201cChassidic businessman who divided his time between Melbourne and Sydney.\u201d \u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A spirited 10-year-old girl, a prominent assistant rabbi, a Ukrainian-born Holocaust survivor and a young network engineer from France were among roughly 15 people killed when two gunmen <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//bondi-beach-shooting-what-we-know-so-far/">opened fire<\/strong><\/a> on families celebrating Hanukkah at Sydney\u2019s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Australian authorities, who classified the shooting as a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community, have not yet released an official list of victims.<\/p>\n<p>However, a day after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Australia, the identities of several victims emerged through social media posts, news reports, and the official <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.chabad.org///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>website<\/strong> <\/a>of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, whose Bondi Beach chapter hosted Sunday\u2019s Hanukkah event.<\/p>\n<p>The Harmony Russian School of Sydney confirmed in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//sydneyrussianschool.com.au#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>a Facebook<\/strong> <\/a>post that 10-year-old Matilda, \u201ca former student of our school,\u201d had died \u201cin hospital due to injuries sustained from a gunshot.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and heartfelt condolences go out to her family, friends, and everyone affected by this tragic event,\u201d the school said.<\/p>\n<p>Matilda\u2019s language teacher, who launched an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////l.facebook.com//l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgofund.me%2F55a66a2dd&h=AT0Wzhu6jbENra488X2CuOFfXMm4Vayl%5FOr1w1bgH813yL%5FuWTJTfzTOA7Np3xgyuOQjxCmRdGRHeJeS3I4P%5F2ll6Z%5F6LonzEB0KoNy0KyzA9jPSEHcjOpY6IRv-2u%5FLw28dvjFcimg5hX0Vk8tNrOllBLFWmr4V&%5F%5Ftn%5F%5F=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT2xf6fL4A7DZS5pxE%5FE77yCBAhBp-5Ip1fWyc4rx3SzLbed%5FoAlUH-kZCUllVKA%5FwWs97g4lzG1HVTP%5F9rDi01mGFbKgo12436qDjAXLikhnEnr4tuyqdm8IyImJjKOLQDorevnMFDDzq4WJqC1jxDWVdwlhwOcDWDK2uz5XfJdrIu9s8xO9LyWy1vGgTiLCiXaTU7JdfomDqb2ZtA\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>online fundraising<\/strong> <\/a>campaign for the family, described her as \u201ca bright, joyful, and spirited child who brought light to everyone around her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Chabad.org, another victim of the mass shooting was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a 41-year-old assistant rabbi at Chabad-Lubavitch of Bondi. Schlanger was on stage leading the Hanukkah ceremony when the two gunmen opened fire. <\/p>\n<p>The website described him as an \u201cirreplaceable leader of the community\u201d who had become \u201ca vocal advocate for protecting Jewish communities against rising antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Schlanger had written to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to \u201cact firmly\u201d against terrorism and antisemitism, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,000 people flocked to Bondi Beach on Sunday for \u201cChanukah by the Sea,\u201d an annual event marking the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights. The attackers\u2014a father and son\u2014opened fire on the crowd, killing 15 people and wounding at least 40 others, including three children. One of the gunmen was shot dead by police, while the other remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Among the fatal casualties was also 87-year-old Alexander Kleytman, a Holocaust survivor, and 27-year-old Dan Elkayam, a French national.<\/p>\n<p>Chabad.org confirmed that Kleytman, a \u201cnative of Ukraine,\u201d was killed \u201cwhile shielding his wife from the gunfire.\u201d He is survived by his wife, two children, and 11 grandchildren, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//EmmanuelMacron//status//2000278649891631596?s=20\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>acknowledged<\/strong><\/a> Elkayam\u2019s death in the \u201cantisemitic terrorist attack\u201d in an X post published on Monday. \u201cMy thoughts are with his family and loved ones, and I extend to them the full solidarity of the Nation,\u201d Macron wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//sydney-fruit-seller-is-hero-who-disarmed-one-of-the-bondi-beach-shooters/">Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//bondi-beach-shooting-what-we-know-so-far/">Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A football fan, Elkayam had spent several years travelling the world and worked in Sydney as a network engineer since 2024, according to his <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////au.linkedin.com//in//danelkayam/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>LinkedIn profile<\/strong><\/a>. According to some media reports, he tried to protect a young girl during the Bondi attack before he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Baptiste Borsali, the mayor of Le Bourget, the French city Elkayam came from, also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//jeanbaptiste.borsalino/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>paid tribute<\/strong><\/a> to the young man, saying his death \u201cfar from his relatives\u201d and \u201cin such tragic circumstances\u201d had \u201cdeeply shaken us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional victims reported by Chabad include Yaakov Levitan, a rabbi affiliated with BINA, a Sydney-based Jewish organisation and Reuven Morrison, a \u201cChassidic businessman who divided his time between Melbourne and Sydney.\u201d <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765797798,"updatedAt":1765802106,"publishedAt":1765801261,"firstPublishedAt":1765801261,"lastPublishedAt":1765802106,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_436306db-d5d7-5328-b458-f3fa77fb6d01-9583308.jpg","altText":"A note is left attached to a flower at a tribute for shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. 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One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second arrested.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>People were seen laying flowers at a growing pile of floral tributes, while long lines formed at a Sydney blood centre after a call for donations.<\/p>\n<p>At least 38 people were being treated in hospitals after the massacre on Sunday, when the two shooters fired indiscriminately on the beachfront festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Those killed included a 10-year-old girl, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Australian authorities declared the incident a terrorist attack. One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second arrested.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765796330,"updatedAt":1765800524,"publishedAt":1765799387,"firstPublishedAt":1765799387,"lastPublishedAt":1765799387,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/61\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a3866e5d-8243-5ded-a1ff-1f897af808a5-9583261.jpg","altText":"People gather around a growing flower tribute to shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. ","caption":"People gather around a growing flower tribute to shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1782,"urlSafeValue":"de-kerchove","title":"Yolaine De Kerchove Dexaerde","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":15450,"slug":"teror-sald-r-s-","urlSafeValue":"teror-sald-r-s-","title":"terrorist attack","titleRaw":"terrorist attack"},{"id":12942,"slug":"antisemitism","urlSafeValue":"antisemitism","title":"antisemitism","titleRaw":"antisemitism"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2854575},{"id":2854946}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"2aXl9CDlj9w","dailymotionId":"x9vqmz0"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/ED\/31\/70\/01\/09\/ED_PYR_3170019_20251215111733.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":11658287,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/31\/70\/01\/09\/SHD_PYR_3170019_20251215111733.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":16137510,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"1080p","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/FHD\/31\/70\/01\/09\/FHD_PYR_3170019_20251215111733.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":48848852,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"nocomment","urlSafeValue":"nocomment","title":"No Comment","online":1,"url":"\/nocomment"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":{"id":440,"urlSafeValue":"sydney-australia","title":"Sydney, Australia"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/video\/2025\/12\/15\/hundreds-gather-to-lay-flowers-at-the-site-of-the-deadly-bondi-beach-shooting","lastModified":1765799387},{"id":2854575,"cid":9582841,"versionId":4,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"BONDI BEACH ATTACK WHAT WE KNOW","daletPyramidId":3602659,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far","titleListing2":"Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far","leadin":"At least 15 people were killed in a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration. Gunmen targeted the local Jewish community in what was deemed an antisemitic terror attack. This is what Euronews knows at this time.","summary":"At least 15 people were killed in a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration. Gunmen targeted the local Jewish community in what was deemed an antisemitic terror attack. This is what Euronews knows at this time.","keySentence":"","url":"bondi-beach-shooting-what-we-know-so-far","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/14\/bondi-beach-shooting-what-we-know-so-far","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At least 15 people were killed when two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday evening. Australian authorities have declared it a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community.\n\nThe shooting began around 6:45 pm local time on Sunday at Bondi Beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs.\n\nAround 1,000 people gathered for \"Chanukah by the Sea,\" an annual event organised by Chabad of Bondi to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah.\n\nThe gunmen dressed in black opened fire with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach, firing for approximately 10 minutes.\n\nWitnesses described chaos and panic as hundreds of people fled along the sand and into nearby streets, many abandoning their belongings.\n\nThe casualties\n\nFifteen people were killed in the attack. One of the gunmen was also shot dead by police, while the other remains in critical condition.\n\nAt least 40 people were taken to hospital with injuries, including three children.\n\nTwo police officers were among those shot and are in serious condition after undergoing surgery.\n\nVictims identified so far include Rabbi Eli Schlanger, assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi and a key organiser of the event, a 10-year-old girl, Holocaust survivor Alexander Kleytman, French citizen Dan Elkayam, and an Israeli citizen, according to Israel's Foreign Ministry.\n\nAdditional victims identified include Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, who served as secretary of the Sydney Beth Din, and Reuven Morrison, a member of the Chabad community.\n\nThe suspects\n\nPolice have identified the two attackers as father and son.\n\nThe father, aged 50, was shot and killed by police at the scene. He was a \"licensed firearms holder with six firearms registered to him,\" according to NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon. Police said he had held the firearms licence since 2015 and was a member of a gun club with a recreational hunting licence.\n\nThe son, 24, is in critical but stable condition under police custody.\n\nAustralian media identified the gunmen as Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed Akram, 24, from Bonnyrigg in Sydney's south-west.\n\nSajid Akram had arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa and later transferred to a partner visa in 2001, according to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.\n\nAustralian intelligence agency ASIO investigated Naveed Akram approximately six years ago for his close ties to a so-called Islamic State group cell in Sydney, according to pubic broadcaster ABC. Reports suggest both gunmen may have pledged allegiance to the group, and an IS flag was reportedly found in their vehicle along with explosive devices.\n\nNaveed Akram's mother told the press outside her family home in Bonnyrigg she had difficulty believing her son was involved.\n\n\"He doesn't have a firearm. He doesn't even go out. He doesn't mix around with friends. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't go to bad places,\" she said.\n\nPolice raided a home in Bonnyrigg linked to one of the suspects and a second property in Campsie where the pair stayed in the lead-up to the attack. Two firearms and several suitcases were seized from the Campsie address.\n\nASIO Director-General Mike Burgess confirmed one of the attackers was known to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation but was not considered an immediate threat.\n\nAuthorities initially investigated whether a third person was involved but are no longer looking for additional suspects.\n\nPolice found and removed improvised explosive devices from a vehicle on Campbell Parade linked to one of the gunmen.\n\nThe hero\n\nVideo footage showed a man in a white shirt tackling one of the gunmen from behind and wrestling his rifle away.\n\nAustralian media have identified him as Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, a fruit stand owner from Sydney.\n\nAl-Ahmed was shot twice during the struggle, once in his arm and once in his hand. He underwent surgery and is recovering.\n\nNew South Wales Premier Chris Minns called him \"a genuine hero,\" saying, \"There are many, many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery.\"\n\nThe response\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese declared it \"an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism.\"\n\n\"This was an attack deliberately targeted at the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah,\" he said. \"An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.\"\n\nAlbanese visited Bondi Beach on Monday morning to lay flowers near the scene and later urged Australians to light a candle in solidarity with the Jewish community.\n\nPolice declared it a terrorist incident on Sunday night local time. Australia's counter-terrorism unit is leading the investigation. Flags across Australia are flying at half-mast.\n\nWorld leaders condemned the attack. French President Emmanuel Macron called it \"an antisemitic terrorist attack\" and vowed to continue fighting \"antisemitic hatred\" in a post on X.\n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog said Israeli hearts \"go out to our Jewish sisters and brothers in Sydney\" and called on Australia to fight \"the enormous wave of antisemitism.\"\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Australian government for \"pouring fuel on this antisemitic fire.\"\n\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said \"antisemitism has no place in this world.\"\n\n\"Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia,\" Rubio said.\n\nBritain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla said they were \"appalled and saddened by the most dreadful antisemitic terrorist attack\" and commended the heroic actions of police and bystanders.\n\n\u201cIn times of hurt, Australians always rally together in unity and resolve. I know that the spirit of community and love that shines so brightly in Australia \u2014 and the light at the heart of the Hanukkah Festival \u2014 will always triumph over the darkness of such evil,\u201d King Charles III said in a statement.\n\nThe attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, when a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania. That tragedy led to sweeping gun control reforms.\n\nAustralia has experienced a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since October 2023. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) documented 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents between October 2024 and September of this year, nearly five times the pre-October 2023 average.\n\nRecent antisemitic attacks in Australia include arson attacks on a Melbourne synagogue and a Sydney kosher restaurant in 2024, which authorities linked to Iran.\n\nBondi Beach is one of Australia's most famous beaches, attracting more than 2 million tourists in 2024. Sydney's eastern suburbs are home to about one-third of Australia's 150,000-strong Jewish community.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 15 people were killed when two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday evening. Australian authorities have declared it a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting began around 6:45 pm local time on Sunday at Bondi Beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,000 people gathered for \"Chanukah by the Sea,\" an annual event organised by Chabad of Bondi to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen dressed in black opened fire with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach, firing for approximately 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described chaos and panic as hundreds of people fled along the sand and into nearby streets, many abandoning their belongings.<\/p>\n<h2>The casualties<\/h2>\n<p>Fifteen people were killed in the attack. One of the gunmen was also shot dead by police, while the other remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>At least 40 people were taken to hospital with injuries, including three children.<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers were among those shot and are in serious condition after undergoing surgery. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//28//41//808x539_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg/" alt=\"Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, 14 December 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/384x256_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/640x427_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/750x500_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/828x552_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/1080x720_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/1200x800_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c6ed7bf6-ea91-5718-8458-f51a62f82204-9582841.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, 14 December 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Victims identified so far include Rabbi Eli Schlanger, assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi and a key organiser of the event, a 10-year-old girl, Holocaust survivor Alexander Kleytman, French citizen Dan Elkayam, and an Israeli citizen, according to Israel's Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Additional victims identified include Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, who served as secretary of the Sydney Beth Din, and Reuven Morrison, a member of the Chabad community.<\/p>\n<h2>The suspects<\/h2>\n<p>Police have identified the two attackers as father and son.<\/p>\n<p>The father, aged 50, was shot and killed by police at the scene. He was a \"licensed firearms holder with six firearms registered to him,\" according to NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon. Police said he had held the firearms licence since 2015 and was a member of a gun club with a recreational hunting licence.<\/p>\n<p>The son, 24, is in critical but stable condition under police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Australian media identified the gunmen as Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed Akram, 24, from Bonnyrigg in Sydney's south-west.<\/p>\n<p>Sajid Akram had arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa and later transferred to a partner visa in 2001, according to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.<\/p>\n<p>Australian intelligence agency ASIO investigated Naveed Akram approximately six years ago for his close ties to a so-called Islamic State group cell in Sydney, according to pubic broadcaster ABC. Reports suggest both gunmen may have pledged allegiance to the group, and an IS flag was reportedly found in their vehicle along with explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>Naveed Akram's mother told the press outside her family home in Bonnyrigg she had difficulty believing her son was involved. <\/p>\n<p>\"He doesn't have a firearm. He doesn't even go out. He doesn't mix around with friends. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't go to bad places,\" she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//24//04//808x539_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg/" alt=\"Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, 14 December 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/384x256_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/640x427_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/750x500_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/828x552_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/1080x720_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/1200x800_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/04\/1920x1281_cmsv2_8bd69418-abf6-5426-9a33-e919b46d15d0-9582404.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, 14 December 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Police raided a home in Bonnyrigg linked to one of the suspects and a second property in Campsie where the pair stayed in the lead-up to the attack. Two firearms and several suitcases were seized from the Campsie address.<\/p>\n<p>ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess confirmed one of the attackers was known to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation but was not considered an immediate threat.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities initially investigated whether a third person was involved but are no longer looking for additional suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Police found and removed improvised explosive devices from a vehicle on Campbell Parade linked to one of the gunmen.<\/p>\n<h2>The hero<\/h2>\n<p>Video footage showed a man in a white shirt tackling one of the gunmen from behind and wrestling his rifle away.<\/p>\n<p>Australian media have identified him as Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, a fruit stand owner from Sydney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2000136958950121618\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Al-Ahmed was shot twice during the struggle, once in his arm and once in his hand. He underwent surgery and is recovering.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales Premier Chris Minns called him \"a genuine hero,\" saying, \"There are many, many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery.\"<\/p>\n<h2>The response<\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared it \"an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"This was an attack deliberately targeted at the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah,\" he said. \"An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.\"<\/p>\n<p>Albanese visited Bondi Beach on Monday morning to lay flowers near the scene and later urged Australians to light a candle in solidarity with the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>Police declared it a terrorist incident on Sunday night local time. Australia's counter-terrorism unit is leading the investigation. Flags across Australia are flying at half-mast.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders condemned the attack. French President Emmanuel Macron called it \"an antisemitic terrorist attack\" and vowed to continue fighting \"antisemitic hatred\" in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Israeli hearts \"go out to our Jewish sisters and brothers in Sydney\" and called on Australia to fight \"the enormous wave of antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Australian government for \"pouring fuel on this antisemitic fire.\"<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said \"antisemitism has no place in this world.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2000190513459142685\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia,\" Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla said they were \"appalled and saddened by the most dreadful antisemitic terrorist attack\" and commended the heroic actions of police and bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn times of hurt, Australians always rally together in unity and resolve. I know that the spirit of community and love that shines so brightly in Australia \u2014 and the light at the heart of the Hanukkah Festival \u2014 will always triumph over the darkness of such evil,\u201d King Charles III said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//28//41//808x539_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg/" alt=\"Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, 14 December 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/384x256_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/640x427_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/750x500_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/828x552_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/1080x720_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/1200x800_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, 14 December 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, when a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania. That tragedy led to sweeping gun control reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has experienced a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since October 2023. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) documented 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents between October 2024 and September of this year, nearly five times the pre-October 2023 average.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//sydney-fruit-seller-is-hero-who-disarmed-one-of-the-bondi-beach-shooters/">Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//us-president-trump-condemns-purely-antisemitic-attack-after-bondi-beach-shooting-leaves-16/">US President Trump condemns 'purely antisemitic attack' after Bondi Beach shooting leaves 16 dead<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Recent antisemitic attacks in Australia include arson attacks on a Melbourne synagogue and a Sydney kosher restaurant in 2024, which authorities linked to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi Beach is one of Australia's most famous beaches, attracting more than 2 million tourists in 2024. Sydney's eastern suburbs are home to about one-third of Australia's 150,000-strong Jewish community.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765746599,"updatedAt":1765789590,"publishedAt":1765749841,"firstPublishedAt":1765749841,"lastPublishedAt":1765789589,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_75e51d55-b8a0-512b-8cd9-f929f33ba967-9582841.jpg","altText":"Police patrol in the early morning following a shooting Sunday at Sydney's Bondi Beach, 14 December 2025","caption":"Police patrol in the early morning following a shooting Sunday at Sydney's Bondi Beach, 14 December 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/28\/41\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4dee9871-1e39-52e9-9557-dd825b41e1da-9582841.jpg","altText":"Emergency workers transport a person 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He underwent surgery and is recovering in hospital.","summary":"Ahmed al-Ahmed tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, saving lives before being shot twice. He underwent surgery and is recovering in hospital.","keySentence":"","url":"sydney-fruit-seller-is-hero-who-disarmed-one-of-the-bondi-beach-shooters","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/14\/sydney-fruit-seller-is-hero-who-disarmed-one-of-the-bondi-beach-shooters","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from Sydney's Sutherland Shire.\n\nVideo footage shows Ahmed, wearing a white T-shirt, charging one of the shooters from behind, wrestling away his rifle and then pointing it at the attacker, who retreated towards a bridge where the second gunman was positioned.\n\nAhmed then placed the rifle against a tree and raised his hands, apparently to signal to police he was not a threat.\n\nDuring the struggle, Ahmed was shot twice by the second gunman \u2014 once in his arm and once in his hand. He underwent surgery on Sunday night and is recovering.\n\n\"We hope he'll be okay,\" his cousin Mustafa told Australian media outside the hospital. \"He's a hero, one hundred per cent.\"\n\nMustafa said Ahmed has no firearms experience and was simply visiting Bondi Beach when the attack began.\n\nNew South Wales Premier Chris Minns called Ahmed \"a genuine hero,\" saying, \"There are many, many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery.\"\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Ahmed during a government meeting in Dimona on Sunday.\n\n\"We saw an action of a brave man \u2014 turns out a Muslim brave man, and I salute him \u2014 that stopped one of these terrorists from killing innocent Jews,\" Netanyahu said.\n\nNetanyahu also criticised Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, saying he had warned him that Australia's policies \"fuel antisemitism.\"\n\nThe attack occurred around 6:45 pm local time at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration attended by around 1,000 people.\n\nPolice have confirmed two attackers were involved \u2014 a father and son. 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He underwent surgery on Sunday night and is recovering.<\/p>\n<p>\"We hope he'll be okay,\" his cousin Mustafa told Australian media outside the hospital. \"He's a hero, one hundred per cent.\"<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa said Ahmed has no firearms experience and was simply visiting Bondi Beach when the attack began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//embed//2854519/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>New South Wales Premier Chris Minns called Ahmed \"a genuine hero,\" saying, \"There are many, many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery.\"<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Ahmed during a government meeting in Dimona on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We saw an action of a brave man \u2014 turns out a Muslim brave man, and I salute him \u2014 that stopped one of these terrorists from killing innocent Jews,\" Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu also criticised Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, saying he had warned him that Australia's policies \"fuel antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred around 6:45 pm local time at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration attended by around 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed two attackers were involved \u2014 a father and son. 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Extraordinary footage showed two men with assault rifles shooting rapid, indiscriminate rounds at a crowd in panic.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters the shooting was \"a targeted attack against Jewish Australians\", \"evil antisemitism terrorism\" and an attack \"against our way of life\" that would not go unpunished. A police investigation is underway.\n\n\"There is no place for this hate, violence and terrorism in our nation,\" Albanese said Sunday. \"Let me clear: we will eradicate it. Amidst this vile attack will emerge a moment of national unity where Australians across the board will embrace their fellow Australians of Jewish faith at this dark moment for our nation.\"\n\nEuropean leaders react to 'outrageous' shooting\n\nGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the shooting left him \"speechless\" and called on global leaders to halt the expansion of antisemitic violence.\n\n\"This is an attack against our shared values,\" he posted on social media on Sunday. \"We must put a stop to this antisemitism - here in Germany and around the world.\"\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences, saying France shares \u201cthe pain of the Australian people\u201d and would \u201ccontinue to fight relentlessly against antisemitic hatred, which harms us all, wherever it occurs.\u201d\n\nCalling the attack \u201cdeeply distressing,\u201d UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer paid tribute to the victims and their families, writing in a post on X that \u201ctogether, we must fight the spread of antisemitism.\u201d\n\nItalian premier Giorgia Meloni urged to maintain a \"firm resolve to end every form of violence and antisemitism\" while Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said the EU is \"united against violence, hatred and antisemitism.\"\n\nElsewhere, some leaders described the shooting as evidence of the growing spread of antisemitism in Australia and beyond.\u00a0\n\nIsrael\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar said the attack was the result of \u201cthe antisemitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years.\"\n\nThe Australian Jewish Association urged citizens to \"please pray for the Australian Jewish community\" in a statement published Sunday.\n\nAttack during Hanukkah celebration, chaos following shooting\n\nNew South Wales police issued a warning at 7pm local time after reports of an active shooting, urging people to take shelter or avoid Bondi Beach. Eyewitness accounts spoke of panic scenes and chaos as people ran for shelter from gunmen.\n\nExtraordinary footage showed two men carrying assault rifles shooting at people, firing rapid rounds at a crowd in panic. A man was also filmed wrestling with one of the gunmen as he tried to take the rifle away and stop the shooting. The police saluted his brave act.\n\nA Hanukkah celebration, one of the most important events in the Jewish calendar, was taking place at the famed beach where around 1,000 people showed up to participate.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>World leaders have reacted to a deadly shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia that killed at least 11 people in what police is now describing as a terror attack targeting the Jewish community coinciding with Hanukkah, one of the most important celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating what they are treating as a terror attack. One gunman is dead, and a second one is in critical condition. Authorities say 29 other people are receiving medical treatment after the shooting. Extraordinary footage showed two men with assault rifles shooting rapid, indiscriminate rounds at a crowd in panic.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters the shooting was \"a targeted attack against Jewish Australians\", \"evil antisemitism terrorism\" and an attack \"against our way of life\" that would not go unpunished. A police investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is no place for this hate, violence and terrorism in our nation,\" Albanese said Sunday. \"Let me clear: we will eradicate it. Amidst this vile attack will emerge a moment of national unity where Australians across the board will embrace their fellow Australians of Jewish faith at this dark moment for our nation.\"<\/p>\n<h2>European leaders react to 'outrageous' shooting<\/h2>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the shooting left him \"speechless\" and called on global leaders to halt the expansion of antisemitic violence. <\/p>\n<p>\"This is an attack against our shared values,\" he posted on social media on Sunday. \"We must put a stop to this antisemitism - here in Germany and around the world.\"<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences, saying France shares \u201cthe pain of the Australian people\u201d and would \u201ccontinue to fight relentlessly against antisemitic hatred, which harms us all, wherever it occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling the attack \u201cdeeply distressing,\u201d UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer paid tribute to the victims and their families, writing in a post on X that \u201ctogether, we must fight the spread of antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Italian premier Giorgia Meloni urged to maintain a \"firm resolve to end every form of violence and antisemitism\" while Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said the EU is \"united against violence, hatred and antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, some leaders described the shooting as evidence of the growing spread of antisemitism in Australia and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar said the attack was the result of \u201cthe antisemitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Jewish Association urged citizens to \"please pray for the Australian Jewish community\" in a statement published Sunday. <\/p>\n<h2>Attack during Hanukkah celebration, chaos following shooting<\/h2>\n<p>New South Wales police issued a warning at 7pm local time after reports of an active shooting, urging people to take shelter or avoid Bondi Beach. Eyewitness accounts spoke of panic scenes and chaos as people ran for shelter from gunmen. <\/p>\n<p>Extraordinary footage showed two men carrying assault rifles shooting at people, firing rapid rounds at a crowd in panic. A man was also filmed wrestling with one of the gunmen as he tried to take the rifle away and stop the shooting. The police saluted his brave act. <\/p>\n<p>A Hanukkah celebration, one of the most important events in the Jewish calendar, was taking place at the famed beach where around 1,000 people showed up to participate. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765715055,"updatedAt":1765810263,"publishedAt":1765718868,"firstPublishedAt":1765718868,"lastPublishedAt":1765727271,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/65\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5170629d-9b25-50dc-95dc-4ceff14e9bd5-9582465.jpg","altText":"AP Photo\/Mark Baker","caption":"AP Photo\/Mark Baker","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. 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Hundreds had gathered at Bondi Beach for an event marking the start of the Jewish Hanukkah festival.\n\nAuthorities have not confirmed the motive or target of the attack.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 11 people were killed on Sunday in a shooting at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach, Australian authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Two gunmen opened fire during a crowded public gathering, prompting a large emergency response. <\/p>\n<p>Police said one suspect was fatally shot by officers, while the second was arrested and remains in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>Several people were wounded, including police officers. 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Police investigations continue as authorities say the Jewish community was the intended target.","summary":"Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese denounced \"evil antisemitism\" after gunmen at Sydney's Bondi Beach killed at least 15 people during Hanukkah celebrations. Police investigations continue as authorities say the Jewish community was the intended target.","keySentence":"","url":"australian-police-detain-two-men-in-connection-with-shooting-at-sydneys-famed-bondi-beach","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/14\/australian-police-detain-two-men-in-connection-with-shooting-at-sydneys-famed-bondi-beach","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At least 15 people have been killed in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach, with one of the gunmen also dead, Australian authorities confirmed.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese denounced the attack as \"an act of pure evil\" and \"evil antisemitism\" that targeted the Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah.\n\nTwo gunmen opened fire on around 1,000 people attending a Chabad-organised event called \"Chanukah by the Sea\" at the famous beach on Sunday evening. One shooter, aged 50, was killed by police at the scene.\n\nA second suspect, 24, is in critical condition in hospital. The two were later identified as a father and son.\n\nAt least 40 people were injured, including two police officers who were shot while responding to the attack.\n\nAmong the victims killed are a 12-year-old girl, Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who helped organise the event, Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, and French citizen Dan Elkayam.\n\nNew South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon declared the shooting a terrorist incident and said the attack was \"designed to target\" the Jewish community. Police confirmed the two suspects were father and son.\n\nVideo footage verified by news outlets showed a bystander tackling one of the gunmen and wrestling his weapon away. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns praised fruit shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, as a \"genuine hero.\" Al-Ahmed was shot twice during the struggle and underwent surgery.\n\nPolice found improvised explosive devices in a vehicle linked to one of the attackers and later removed them. Authorities are investigating whether a third person was involved.\n\nWorld leaders condemned the attack. French President Emmanuel Macron called it \"an antisemitic terrorist attack.\" Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the country's \"hearts go out to our Jewish sisters and brothers in Sydney.\"\n\nWitnesses described scenes of panic as hundreds of people fled along the beach and into nearby streets.\n\nThe attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which killed 35 people and led to sweeping gun control reforms.\n\nAustralia has experienced a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since October 2023, with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry documenting 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents between October 2024 and September this year.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 15 people have been killed in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach, with one of the gunmen also dead, Australian authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese denounced the attack as \"an act of pure evil\" and \"evil antisemitism\" that targeted the Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>Two gunmen opened fire on around 1,000 people attending a Chabad-organised event called \"Chanukah by the Sea\" at the famous beach on Sunday evening. One shooter, aged 50, was killed by police at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>A second suspect, 24, is in critical condition in hospital. The two were later identified as a father and son.<\/p>\n<p>At least 40 people were injured, including two police officers who were shot while responding to the attack. <\/p>\n<p>Among the victims killed are a 12-year-old girl, Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who helped organise the event, Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, and French citizen Dan Elkayam.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon declared the shooting a terrorist incident and said the attack was \"designed to target\" the Jewish community. Police confirmed the two suspects were father and son.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage verified by news outlets showed a bystander tackling one of the gunmen and wrestling his weapon away. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns praised fruit shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, as a \"genuine hero.\" Al-Ahmed was shot twice during the struggle and underwent surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Police found improvised explosive devices in a vehicle linked to one of the attackers and later removed them. Authorities are investigating whether a third person was involved.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders condemned the attack. French President Emmanuel Macron called it \"an antisemitic terrorist attack.\" Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the country's \"hearts go out to our Jewish sisters and brothers in Sydney.\"<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described scenes of panic as hundreds of people fled along the beach and into nearby streets.<\/p>\n<p>The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which killed 35 people and led to sweeping gun control reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has experienced a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since October 2023, with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry documenting 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents between October 2024 and September this year.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765702281,"updatedAt":1765746290,"publishedAt":1765703640,"firstPublishedAt":1765703640,"lastPublishedAt":1765746289,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/24\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2c298b98-b3d0-5c5a-9957-eb785f455273-9582414.jpg","altText":"Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025","caption":"Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mark Baker\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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The parachute pulled him backward and became caught around the aircraft\u2019s tail, leaving him suspended below the plane.\n\nFerguson cut several lines and then deployed his main parachute, which allowed him to land with minor injuries.\n\nThe pilot returned the aircraft safely to Tully.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australia is investigating a skydiving incident in Queensland after a jumper became entangled beneath a plane\u2019s tail at about 4,500 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the reserve parachute of Adrian Ferguson deployed early as he exited a Cessna Caravan during a planned formation jump. The parachute pulled him backward and became caught around the aircraft\u2019s tail, leaving him suspended below the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson cut several lines and then deployed his main parachute, which allowed him to land with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot returned the aircraft safely to Tully.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765540978,"updatedAt":1765554714,"publishedAt":1765543476,"firstPublishedAt":1765543476,"lastPublishedAt":1765554713,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/09\/27\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_21f4b5ed-bcc3-5bc6-9131-5957c507b0ab-9580927.jpg","altText":"In this imaged taken from a video, a skydiver is caught on the wing of a plane as he exited the aircraft in Tully, North Queensland, Sept.20, 2025.","caption":"In this imaged taken from a video, a skydiver is caught on the wing of a plane as he exited the aircraft in Tully, North Queensland, Sept.20, 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Jarrad 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communication.","keySentence":"","url":"reddit-challenges-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-claims-law-curbs-political-discussi","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/12\/12\/reddit-challenges-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-claims-law-curbs-political-discussi","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Global online forum Reddit filed a court challenge on Friday to Australia\u2019s law banning children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world\u2019s most popular social media platforms.\n\nCalifornia-based Reddit Inc.\u2019s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project.\n\nBoth suits claim the world-first law is unconstitutional because it infringes on Australia\u2019s implied freedom of political communication.\n\n\u201cWe believe there are more effective ways for the Australian government to accomplish our shared goal of protecting youth, and the SMMA (Social Media Minimum Age) law carries some 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The matter is before the courts so it is not appropriate to comment further,\u201d the statement added.\n\nReddit, Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and Twitch face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (\u20ac28.1 million) from Wednesday if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of Australian children younger than 16.\n\nAustralia\u2019s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, the law\u2019s enforcer, sent compulsory information notices to the 10 age-restricted platforms on Thursday demanding data on how many accounts of young children they had deactivated since the law took effect on Wednesday.\n\nInman Grant had predicted that some platforms might have been waiting to receive their first notice or their first fine for noncompliance before mounting a legal challenge.\n\nESafety will send six monthly notices to gauge how effectively the platforms are complying.\n\nDespite the court challenge, Reddit said it would comply with the law and would continue to engage with eSafety.\n\nAustralian children already looking for alternatives\n\nAustralian children are searching for alternatives to the age-restricted platforms. Downloads of Yope, an app for sharing photos within friend groups, increased by 251 per cent since Monday, according to Apptopia, an intelligence platform analysing mobile apps.\n\nDownloads of Lemon8 \u2014 a photo- and video-sharing app which, like TikTok, was created by ByteDance \u2014 increased by 88 per cent.\n\nESafety said it has written to Yope, Lemon8 and other smaller apps to ask them to self-assess whether they meet the definition of an age-restricted platform. If they do, they also face fines if they don\u2019t exclude young children.\n\nExperts say policing age restrictions in the rapidly evolving social media landscape is like a game of Whack-a-Mole. But government authorities expect a more fragmented social media marketplace would not appeal as strongly to young children who fear exclusion from their peers and missing out.\n\nThe platforms\u2019 age-verification options were to ask for copies of identification documents, use a third party to apply age-estimation technology to analyse an account holder\u2019s face, or make inferences from data already available, such has how long an account has been held.\n\nThe government hasn't told the platforms how to check ages, but has said requesting all account holders verify their ages would be unnecessarily intrusive, given the tech giants already have sufficient personal data on most people to perform that task.\n\nFor privacy reasons, the platforms also cannot compel users to provide government-issued identification.\n\nDocuments filed with the court registry show Reddit will ask the seven High Court judges to rule the law is invalid.\n\nAlternatively, the company wants the court to prevent the government from listing Reddit among the age-restricted platforms.\n\nThe High Court will hold a preliminary hearing in late February to set a date for Digital Freedom Project's challenge on behalf of two 15-year-olds. It is not yet clear whether the two challenges would be heard together.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Global online forum Reddit filed a court challenge on Friday to Australia\u2019s law banning children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world\u2019s most popular social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Reddit Inc.\u2019s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project.<\/p>\n<p>Both suits claim the world-first law is unconstitutional because it infringes on Australia\u2019s implied freedom of political communication.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//10//australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-is-here-experts-warn-it-could-have-a-lot-of-mistakes/">Australia/u2019s social media ban for kids is here. Experts warn it could have \u2018a lot of mistakes'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe there are more effective ways for the Australian government to accomplish our shared goal of protecting youth, and the SMMA (Social Media Minimum Age) law carries some serious privacy and political expression issues for everyone on the Internet,\u201d Reddit said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we agree with the importance of protecting people under 16, this law has the unfortunate effect of forcing intrusive and potentially insecure verification processes on adults as well as minors, isolating teens from the ability to engage in age-appropriate community experiences (including political discussions), and creating an illogical patchwork of which platforms are included and which aren\u2019t,\u201d Reddit added.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government declined to comment on the merits of Reddit's challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Albanese government is on the side of Australian parents and kids, not platforms,\u201d a government statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will stand firm to protect young Australians from experiencing harm on social media. The matter is before the courts so it is not appropriate to comment further,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//09//australia-banned-social-media-for-under-16s-could-denmark-do-the-same/">Australia banned social media for under-16s. Could Denmark do the same?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and Twitch <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//11//australia-demands-social-media-giants-report-progress-on-account-bans-for-children-under-1/">face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars<\/strong><\/a> (\u20ac28.1 million) from Wednesday if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of Australian children younger than 16.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, the law\u2019s enforcer, sent compulsory information notices to the 10 age-restricted platforms on Thursday demanding data on how many accounts of young children they had deactivated since the law took effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Inman Grant had predicted that some platforms might have been waiting to receive their first notice or their first fine for noncompliance before mounting a legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>ESafety will send six monthly notices to gauge how effectively the platforms are complying.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the court challenge, Reddit said it would comply with the law and would continue to engage with eSafety.<\/p>\n<h2>Australian children already looking for alternatives<\/h2>\n<p>Australian children are searching for alternatives to the age-restricted platforms. Downloads of Yope, an app for sharing photos within friend groups, increased by 251 per cent since Monday, according to Apptopia, an intelligence platform analysing mobile apps.<\/p>\n<p>Downloads of Lemon8 \u2014 a photo- and video-sharing app which, like TikTok, was created by ByteDance \u2014 increased by 88 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>ESafety said it has written to Yope, Lemon8 and other smaller apps to ask them to self-assess whether they meet the definition of an age-restricted platform. If they do, they also face fines if they don\u2019t exclude young children.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say policing age restrictions in the rapidly evolving social media landscape is like a game of Whack-a-Mole. But government authorities expect a more fragmented social media marketplace would not appeal as strongly to young children who fear exclusion from their peers and missing out.<\/p>\n<p>The platforms\u2019 age-verification options were to ask for copies of identification documents, use a third party to apply age-estimation technology to analyse an account holder\u2019s face, or make inferences from data already available, such has how long an account has been held.<\/p>\n<p>The government hasn't told the platforms how to check ages, but has said requesting<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//australia-chldren-banned-social-media-2bbc1f2921af4f008215c16d5e8b3506/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <\/a>all account holders verify their ages would be unnecessarily intrusive, given the tech giants already have sufficient personal data on most people to perform that task.<\/p>\n<p>For privacy reasons, the platforms also cannot compel users to provide government-issued identification.<\/p>\n<p>Documents filed with the court registry show Reddit will ask the seven High Court judges to rule the law is invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, the company wants the court to prevent the government from listing Reddit among the age-restricted platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court will hold a preliminary hearing in late February to set a date for Digital Freedom Project's challenge on behalf of two 15-year-olds. It is not yet clear whether the two challenges would be heard together.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765526386,"updatedAt":1765529228,"publishedAt":1765528400,"firstPublishedAt":1765528400,"lastPublishedAt":1765528400,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/05\/53\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8aba02aa-3990-5cff-8f66-9b3da9f7bfea-9580553.jpg","altText":"The social media ban for children under 16 slogan \"Let Them Be Kids\" is projected onto the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney.","caption":"The social media ban for children under 16 slogan \"Let Them Be Kids\" is projected onto the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mick Tsikas\/AAP Image via 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16.","keySentence":"","url":"australia-demands-social-media-giants-report-progress-on-account-bans-for-children-under-1","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/12\/11\/australia-demands-social-media-giants-report-progress-on-account-bans-for-children-under-1","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australian authorities have demanded that some of the world\u2019s biggest social media platforms report how many accounts they have deactivated since a ban on accounts for children younger than 16 became law.\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch all said they would abide by Australia\u2019s world-first law that took effect on Wednesday, Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said a day later.\n\nBut the tech companies\u2019 responses to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant\u2019s first demand for data will likely indicate their commitment to ridding their platforms of young children.\n\n\u201cToday the eSafety Commissioner will 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The platforms would be required to provide monthly updates for six months.\n\nThe companies face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (\u20ac28.1 million) from Wednesday if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of Australian children younger than 16.\n\nWells said the European Commission, France, Denmark, Greece, Romania, Indonesia, Malaysia and New Zealand were considering following Australia\u2019s lead in restricting children\u2019s access to social media.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s been a huge amount of global interest and we welcome it, and we welcome all of the allies who are joining Australia to take action in this space to draw a line to say enough\u2019s enough,\u201d Wells said.\n\nSydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project plans to challenge the law on constitutional grounds in the Australian High Court early next year.\n\nInman Grant said some platforms had consulted lawyers and might be waiting to receive their first so-called compulsory information notice on Thursday or their first fine for noncompliance before mounting a legal challenge.\n\nInman Grant said her staff were ready for the possibility that platforms would deliberately fail to exclude young children through age verification and age estimation technologies.\n\n\u201cThat could be a strategy that they have in and of themselves: we\u2019ll say we\u2019re complying but then we\u2019ll do a crappy job using these technologies and we\u2019ll let people get through and have people claim it\u2019s a failure,\u201d Inman Grant told Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\nInman Grant said her research had found that 84 per cent of children in Australia aged 8-12 had accessed a social media account. Of those with social media access, 90 per cent did so with the help of parents.\n\nInman Grant said the main reason parents helped was that \u201cthey didn\u2019t want their children to be excluded.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat this legislation does \u2026 is it takes away that fear of exclusion,\u201d Inman Grant said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australian authorities have demanded that some of the world\u2019s biggest social media platforms report how many accounts they have deactivated since a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//10//australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-is-here-experts-warn-it-could-have-a-lot-of-mistakes/">ban on accounts for children younger than 16<\/a> became law.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch all said they would abide by Australia\u2019s world-first law that took effect on Wednesday, Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said a day later. <\/p>\n<p>But the tech companies\u2019 responses to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant\u2019s first demand for data will likely indicate their commitment to ridding their platforms of young children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the eSafety Commissioner will write to all 10 platforms who are considered age-restricted social media platforms and she will ask them \u2026 what were your numbers of under 16 accounts on December 9; what are your numbers today on December 11?\u201d Wells said.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner would reveal the platforms\u2019 responses within two weeks. The platforms would be required to provide monthly updates for six months.<\/p>\n<p>The companies face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (\u20ac28.1 million) from Wednesday if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of Australian children younger than 16.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//10//australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-is-here-experts-warn-it-could-have-a-lot-of-mistakes/">Australia/u2019s social media ban for kids is here. Experts warn it could have \u2018a lot of mistakes'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Wells said the European Commission, France, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//09//australia-banned-social-media-for-under-16s-could-denmark-do-the-same/">Denmark, Greece, Romania, Indonesia, Malaysia and New Zealand were considering following Australia\u2019s lead in restricting children\u2019s access to social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a huge amount of global interest and we welcome it, and we welcome all of the allies who are joining Australia to take action in this space to draw a line to say enough\u2019s enough,\u201d Wells said.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project plans to challenge the law on constitutional grounds in the Australian High Court early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Inman Grant said some platforms had consulted lawyers and might be waiting to receive their first so-called compulsory information notice on Thursday or their first fine for noncompliance before mounting a legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Inman Grant said her staff were ready for the possibility that platforms would deliberately fail to exclude young children through <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//11//17//the-age-verification-era-which-eu-countries-are-restricting-access-to-adult-sites/">age verification and age estimation technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat could be a strategy that they have in and of themselves: we\u2019ll say we\u2019re complying but then we\u2019ll do a crappy job using these technologies and we\u2019ll let people get through and have people claim it\u2019s a failure,\u201d Inman Grant told Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Inman Grant said her research had found that 84 per cent of children in Australia aged 8-12 had accessed a social media account. 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Experts warn it could have \u2018a lot of mistakes'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What to know about Australia\u2019s new under-16 social media ban","titleListing2":"Australia\u2019s social media ban for kids is here. Experts warn it could have \u2018a lot of mistakes'","leadin":"Experts say Australia\u2019s new social media ban might not change children\u2019s online lives as much as regulators hope.","summary":"Experts say Australia\u2019s new social media ban might not change children\u2019s online lives as much as regulators hope.","keySentence":"","url":"australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-is-here-experts-warn-it-could-have-a-lot-of-mistakes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/12\/10\/australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-is-here-experts-warn-it-could-have-a-lot-of-mistakes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As Australia\u2019s world-first social media ban comes into effect on Wednesday, experts tell Euronews Next that it might not be very effective at improving children\u2019s online lives.\n\nAs of December 10, Australian children under age 16 will be unable to create or keep accounts on platforms such as Facebook, X, Threads, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, X, Reddit, and Google-owned YouTube.\n\nChildren will be unable to create an account, but they will still be able to access the platforms without logging in.\n\nThe country\u2019s eSafety Commissioner says the new regulations aim to protect young Australians from \u201cpressures and risks\u201d they could face on social media, including \u201cdesign features\u201d that encourage higher screen times and content that can \u201charm their health and well-being.\u201d\n\nAs the law enters into force, here\u2019s what to expect from this major change in Australia.\n\n\u2018There\u2019s going to be a lot of mistakes\u2019\n\nSocial media companies are expected to comply with Australia\u2019s new regulations by filtering out users under 16 through \u201cage assurances,\u201d or age verification. These are services where young Australians will either upload a video selfie or a government ID to prove their age.\n\nAhead of the restrictions, Australia tested 60 age verification tools in 28,500 facial recognition tests.\n\nThe study found many methods \u2013 including ID checks, facial-age estimation, and parental consent \u2013 could work, but they are less effective for users who are 16 or 17. The tools were also less effective for girls and for non-Caucasian faces, where the age estimation was off by at least two years.\n\nThat means some teenagers could circumvent the verification tools, experts warned.\n\n\u201cHow do they know who is 14 or 15 when the kids have all signed up as being 75?,\u201d Sonia Livingstone, a social psychology professor at the London School of Economics, told Euronews Next. \u201cSo you know there's gonna be a lot of mistakes.\u201d\n\nThe social media companies acknowledge this in their own implementation plans.\n\n\u201cRealistically, we can only do so much to determine age without requiring everyone to provide a government ID \u2013 which isn\u2019t safe, poses significant privacy risks, and could lead to identity theft,\u201d social media giant Meta wrote in a recent blog post, noting that age verification is an issue \u201cfor the entire industry.\u201d\n\nIn these situations, children over 16 who believe their accounts have been closed down unnecessarily can appeal the process.\n\nTo account or not to account\n\nSocial media companies have pushed back against the restrictions. The crux of their argument is that they already have age-appropriate settings for teenage users.\n\nFor example, Meta said that because children will still be able to access Instagram without logging in, they won\u2019t be subject to the stricter features of the app\u2019s \u201cTeen Accounts,\u201d which limit who can contact children online and restrict content on sensitive topics.\n\nRachel Lord, a representative of Google and YouTube, told the Australian parliament earlier this year that teenage accounts have built-in safeguards that filter out inappropriate or harmful content from their recommendations sections, such as videos that idealise \u201cdifferent weights or fitness levels.\u201d\n\nYouTube\u2019s autoplay features and personal advertising are also turned off for child users who are logged into the platform, Lord said at the time.\n\nLorna Woods, a professor of internet law at the University of Essex, said that companies\u2019 efforts to moderate what children see online often do not work as intended.\n\n\u201cIf they were sufficiently effective, then you wouldn\u2019t need the ban,\u201d Woods told Euronews Next.\n\nFor example, one study from Dublin City University found that it took an average of 23 to 26 minutes for a new YouTube or TikTok account held by a young man to start receiving misogynistic content.\n\nAnother study by the UK-based Molly Rose Foundation showed that recommended videos on the TikTok \u201cFor You Page\u201d of a hypothetical 15-year-old girl were frequently related to suicide, depression or self-harm, including tutorials.\n\nExpect a rush to \u2018alternative\u2019 video game platforms\n\nLivingstone said a key argument against social media bans is that teenagers will just find \u201calternative spaces\u201d that are not as restricted.\n\nSmaller platforms such as the lifestyle app Lemon8, \u201csafe\u201d video sharing app Coverstar, and livestreaming app Tango have all been in the top 10 most-downloaded apps in Australia on both Google Play and Apple\u2019s app store since December 1, according to aggregator Sensor Tower.\n\nMeanwhile, messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, while still popular, are exempt from the restrictions and have been downloaded many times in the past few days,\u00a0 according to Sensor Tower data.\n\nThe short-lived TikTok ban in the United States earlier this year showed that RedNote, another Chinese videosharing app, could be another replacement for teenagers looking to get around the restrictions.\n\n\u201cWord will start going around that this is where people are meeting up \u2026 or they\u2019ll ask ChatGPT what\u2019s the latest fun app \u2026 and by the time we\u2019ve noticed, they will have gone somewhere else,\u201d Livingstone said.\n\nWoods said the ban may be less effective than regulators hope because messaging apps were excluded.\n\n\u201cWill it have any effect if everybody\u2019s just going on to WhatsApp and doing the same things? Will the screen or app use time remain the same?\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nLivingstone and Woods said they suspect many young people will move to gaming platforms such as Discord or Roblox, which aren\u2019t included in the ban but could still include sensitive content or risky interactions.\n\nAustralian research groups have said they will investigate how the restrictions impact young people\u2019s mental health and if the ban helps or hurts parents who are trying to curb their teens\u2019 social media use.\n\nStill, Woods said it will take at least a couple of years to see whether the restrictions help get children off social media and whether it improves children\u2019s wellbeing.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As Australia\u2019s world-first social media ban comes into effect on Wednesday, experts tell Euronews Next that it might not be very effective at improving children\u2019s online lives. \u200b<\/p>\n<p>As of December 10, Australian children under age 16 will be unable to create or keep accounts on platforms such as Facebook, X, Threads, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, X, Reddit, and Google-owned YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Children will be unable to create an account, but they will still be able to access the platforms without logging in.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s eSafety Commissioner says the new regulations aim to protect young Australians from \u201cpressures and risks\u201d they could face on social media, including \u201cdesign features\u201d that encourage higher screen times and content that can \u201charm their health and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the law enters into force, here\u2019s what to expect from this major change in Australia.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018There\u2019s going to be a lot of mistakes\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Social media companies are expected to comply with Australia\u2019s new regulations by filtering out users under 16 through \u201cage assurances,\u201d or age verification. These are services where young Australians will either upload a video selfie or a government ID to prove their age.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the restrictions, Australia tested 60 age verification tools in 28,500 facial recognition tests.<\/p>\n<p>The study found many methods \u2013 including ID checks, facial-age estimation, and parental consent \u2013 could work, but they are less effective for users who are 16 or 17. The tools were also less effective for girls and for non-Caucasian faces, where the age estimation was off by at least two years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//04//meta-starts-removing-accounts-for-under-16s-ahead-of-australia-social-media-ban/">Meta starts removing accounts for under-16s ahead of Australia social media ban<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>That means some teenagers could circumvent the verification tools, experts warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do they know who is 14 or 15 when the kids have all signed up as being 75?,\u201d Sonia Livingstone, a social psychology professor at the London School of Economics, told Euronews Next. \u201cSo you know there's gonna be a lot of mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The social media companies acknowledge this in their own implementation plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealistically, we can only do so much to determine age without requiring everyone to provide a government ID \u2013 which isn\u2019t safe, poses significant privacy risks, and could lead to identity theft,\u201d social media giant Meta wrote in a recent blog post, noting that age verification is an issue \u201cfor the entire industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In these situations, children over 16 who believe their accounts have been closed down unnecessarily can appeal the process.<\/p>\n<h2>To account or not to account<\/h2>\n<p>Social media companies have pushed back against the restrictions. The crux of their argument is that they already have age-appropriate settings for teenage users.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Meta said that because children will still be able to access Instagram without logging in, they won\u2019t be subject to the stricter features of the app\u2019s \u201cTeen Accounts,\u201d which limit who can contact children online and restrict content on sensitive topics.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Lord, a representative of Google and YouTube, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//10//13//australias-world-leading-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-is-difficult-to-enforce-google-say/">told the Australian parliament<\/strong><\/a>earlier this year that teenage accounts have built-in safeguards that filter out inappropriate or harmful content from their recommendations sections, such as videos that idealise \u201cdifferent weights or fitness levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s autoplay features and personal advertising are also turned off for child users who are logged into the platform, Lord said at the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//11//05//australia-adds-reddit-and-kick-to-world-leading-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16/">Australia adds Reddit and Kick to world-leading social media ban for children under 16<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Lorna Woods, a professor of internet law at the University of Essex, said that companies\u2019 efforts to moderate what children see online often do not work as intended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they were sufficiently effective, then you wouldn\u2019t need the ban,\u201d Woods told Euronews Next.<\/p>\n<p>For example, one <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//04//23//tiktok-and-youtube-shorts-push-misogynistic-videos-to-young-male-watchers-study-finds/">study from Dublin City University found that it took an average of 23 to 26 minutes for a new YouTube or TikTok account held by a young man to start receiving misogynistic content.<\/p>\n<p>Another study by the UK-based Molly Rose Foundation showed that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//08//21//tiktok-and-instagram-accused-of-pushing-suicide-related-content-to-teens/">recommended videos<\/strong><\/a> on the TikTok \u201cFor You Page\u201d of a hypothetical 15-year-old girl were frequently related to suicide, depression or self-harm, including tutorials.<\/p>\n<h2>Expect a rush to \u2018alternative\u2019 video game platforms<\/h2>\n<p>Livingstone said a key argument against social media bans is that teenagers will just find \u201calternative spaces\u201d that are not as restricted.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller platforms such as the lifestyle app Lemon8, \u201csafe\u201d video sharing app Coverstar, and livestreaming app Tango have all been in the top 10 most-downloaded apps in Australia on both Google Play and Apple\u2019s app store since December 1, according to<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////app.sensortower.com//top-charts?category=6005&country=AU&date=2025-12-04&device=iphone&os=ios\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>aggregator<\/strong><\/a> Sensor Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, while still popular, are exempt from the restrictions and have been downloaded many times in the past few days, according to Sensor Tower data.<\/p>\n<p>The short-lived TikTok ban in the United States earlier this year showed that RedNote, another Chinese videosharing app, could be another replacement for teenagers looking to get around the restrictions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//10//28//meta-tiktok-and-snapchat-say-they-disagree-but-will-comply-with-australias-social-media-ba/">Meta, TikTok and Snapchat say they disagree but will comply with Australia\u2019s social media ban<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cWord will start going around that this is where people are meeting up \u2026 or they\u2019ll ask ChatGPT what\u2019s the latest fun app \u2026 and by the time we\u2019ve noticed, they will have gone somewhere else,\u201d Livingstone said.<\/p>\n<p>Woods said the ban may be less effective than regulators hope because messaging apps were excluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill it have any effect if everybody\u2019s just going on to WhatsApp and doing the same things? Will the screen or app use time remain the same?\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Livingstone and Woods said they suspect many young people will move to gaming platforms such as Discord or Roblox, which aren\u2019t included in the ban but could still include sensitive content or risky interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Australian research groups have said they will investigate how the restrictions impact young people\u2019s mental health and if the ban helps or hurts parents who are trying to curb their teens\u2019 social media use.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Woods said it will take at least a couple of years to see whether the restrictions help get children off social media and whether it improves children\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765208118,"updatedAt":1765342833,"publishedAt":1765342814,"firstPublishedAt":1765342814,"lastPublishedAt":1765342832,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/57\/57\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3842d53d-8db0-5fdb-9c14-7af24331fdb6-9575757.jpg","altText":"This combination of photos shows logos of X, formerly known as Twitter, top left; Snapchat, top right; Facebook, bottom left; and TikTok, bottom right.","caption":"This combination of photos shows logos of X, formerly known as Twitter, top left; Snapchat, top right; Facebook, bottom left; and TikTok, bottom right.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo, File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2860,"urlSafeValue":"desmarais","title":"Anna Desmarais","twitter":"anna_desmarais"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social Media","titleRaw":"Social Media"},{"id":13,"slug":"australia","urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","titleRaw":"Australia"},{"id":26440,"slug":"meta","urlSafeValue":"meta","title":"Meta","titleRaw":"Meta"},{"id":7729,"slug":"youtube","urlSafeValue":"youtube","title":"YouTube","titleRaw":"YouTube"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":3}],"related":[{"id":2855308}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/tech-news\/tech-news"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","url":"\/next\/tech-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":40,"urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":{"id":4289,"urlSafeValue":"canberra","title":"Canberra"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/next\/2025\/12\/10\/australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-is-here-experts-warn-it-could-have-a-lot-of-mistakes","lastModified":1765342832},{"id":2852811,"cid":9575257,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Queensland Museum","daletPyramidId":3535404,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Shell-funded school materials accused of downplaying fossil fuels\u2019 climate impact","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Shell gave \u20ac5m to this museum. Should parents be worried?","titleListing2":"Shell-funded school materials accused of downplaying fossil fuels\u2019 climate impact","leadin":"School materials emblazoned with the Shell logo are shaping how children as young as 10 learn about climate change.","summary":"School materials emblazoned with the Shell logo are shaping how children as young as 10 learn about climate change.","keySentence":"","url":"shell-funded-school-materials-accused-of-downplaying-fossil-fuels-climate-impact","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/12\/08\/shell-funded-school-materials-accused-of-downplaying-fossil-fuels-climate-impact","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A popular museum is under growing pressure to cut ties with fossil giant Shell after being accused of misleading children about the climate crisis.\n\nAn investigation by climate advocacy group Comms Declare found that Queensland Museum in Australia has accepted more than $10.25 million AUD (around \u20ac5.84 million) from Shell\u2019s QGC gas business since 2015.\n\nIn a new report, researchers say this has given the oil and gas company \u201cpotential influence\u201d over curriculum-aligned programs and \u201cwidespread exposure\u201d in education materials used by school children.\n\nDespite the museum insisting it has \u201cfull independence\u201d, Comms Declare found Shell-branded school materials delivered under the Museum\u2019s authority had \u201csystematic omissions and distortions\u201d which downplay fossil fuels\u2019 role in climate change.\n\nWhat the Shell-funded materials don\u2019t teach children\n\nThe report analyses multiple booklets issued to children under Queensland Museum\u2019s Future Makers program, to check for any bias.\n\nIt found that fossil fuels were not cited as the primary driver of global warming and ocean acidification \u2013 despite overwhelming scientific consensus suggesting otherwise.\n\nThe UN describes burning coal, oil and gas as the \u201clargest contributor\u201d to climate change, accounting for around 68 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and almost 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions. Ocean acidification is mainly caused by CO2 in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean, lowering the water\u2019s pH.\n\nHowever, in the resource \u2018Introduction to Ocean Acidification\u2019, students were actually asked to focus on designing their own carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology rather than discussing coal, oil and gas combustion.\u00a0\n\n\u201cBy removing fossil fuels from the casual chain and highlighting CCS as a \u2018solution\u2019, the resource reframes a fossil-fuel-driven crisis as a neutral scientific challenge,\u201d the report states. \u201cIt effectively provides corporate greenwashing in the guise of STEM learning.\u201d\n\nIn the resource \u2018States of Matter: Our Warming World\u2019, researchers found no link between global warming and fossil fuels \u2013 with the phrase only being used once in a teacher note, and not as part of any core learning outcome.\n\nThe report also argues that Shell \"shifts responsibility\u201d from systemic causes to individual behaviour or invention, minimising corporate and policy accountability.\u00a0\n\nShould Queensland Museum\u2019s resources be axed?\n\nComms Declare\u2019s founder Belinda Noble says the findings raise \u201curgent concerns\u201d for Queensland parents that their children are being taught \u201cbiased, half-truths\u201d about climate change and the energy future.\n\n\u201cThis is climate obstruction dressed up as education,\u201d Noble adds. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t let Big Tobacco sponsor teaching materials. Fossil fuel companies shouldn\u2019t shape how kids learn about the climate.\u201d\n\nQueensland Conservation Council campaigner Charlie Cox argues most Queensland families would be \u201calarmed\u201d to see how \u201cheavy-handed and misleading\u201d Shell\u2019s influence has been on the state museum for the last decade.\n\n\u201cThese fossil fuel-funded materials leave our kids without the scientific foundations they need to navigate the world they\u2019re inheriting,\u201d she says. \u201cScience should inform politics, not the other way around.\u201d\n\nCox, along with Comms Declare and other environmentalists, is now calling on Queensland Museum to end its long-standing partnership with Shell.\u00a0\n\nWhat does the museum say about the claims?\n\nHowever, Queensland Museum did not answer Euronews Green when directly asked if it plans on scrapping the materials.\n\nInstead, a spokesperson said that Shell's QGC business does not authorise any content and that the museum develops all learning resources to align with the Australian Curriculum and the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority.\n\n\"Since mid-2024, Queensland Museum's small team of education specialists have been systematically reviewing 130 learning resources to align with the updated Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nA Shell spokesperson says it has a \"long and valued\" relationship with the museum to support the Future Makers program, which encourages children to take an interest in STEM, adding: \"We have no role in developing or approving any of the museum's materials.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A popular museum is under growing pressure to cut ties with fossil giant Shell after being accused of misleading children about the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by climate advocacy group Comms Declare found that Queensland Museum in Australia has accepted more than $10.25 million AUD (around \u20ac5.84 million) from Shell\u2019s QGC gas business since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report, researchers say this has given the oil and gas company \u201cpotential influence\u201d over curriculum-aligned programs and \u201cwidespread exposure\u201d in education materials used by school children.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the museum insisting it has \u201cfull independence\u201d, Comms Declare found Shell-branded school materials delivered under the Museum\u2019s authority had \u201csystematic omissions and distortions\u201d which downplay <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//13//world-has-virtually-exhausted-its-carbon-budget-as-fossil-fuel-emissions-reach-all-time-hi/">fossil fuels\u2019 role in climate change<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What the Shell-funded materials don\u2019t teach children<\/h2>\n<p>The report analyses multiple booklets issued to children under Queensland Museum\u2019s Future Makers program, to check for any bias.<\/p>\n<p>It found that fossil fuels were not cited as the primary driver of global warming and<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//09//24//planetary-health-check-reveals-oceans-have-breached-critical-acidification-boundary/">ocean acidification<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 despite overwhelming scientific consensus suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The UN describes burning coal, oil and gas as the \u201clargest contributor\u201d to<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//12//03//a-decade-of-climate-court-cases-how-legal-battles-are-holding-governments-and-polluters-ac/">climate change<\/strong><\/a>, accounting for around 68 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and almost 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions. Ocean acidification is mainly caused by CO2 in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean, lowering the water\u2019s pH.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the resource \u2018Introduction to Ocean Acidification\u2019, students were actually asked to focus on designing their own <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//18//carbon-capture-the-inside-story-of-how-a-delay-tactic-became-a-darling-of-the-eu/">carbon capture and storage<\/strong><\/a> (CCS) technology rather than discussing coal, oil and gas combustion. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//12//06//nowhere-to-move-how-climate-change-became-the-property-markets-biggest-nightmare/">Nowhere to move: How climate change became the property market\u2019s biggest nightmare<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//12//05//african-penguins-starved-en-masse-due-to-food-shortages-driven-by-climate-shifts-and-overf/">African penguins starved \u2018en masse\u2019 due to food shortages driven by climate shifts and overfishing<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cBy removing fossil fuels from the casual chain and highlighting CCS as a \u2018solution\u2019, the resource reframes a fossil-fuel-driven crisis as a neutral scientific challenge,\u201d the report states. \u201cIt effectively provides corporate greenwashing in the guise of STEM learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the resource \u2018States of Matter: Our Warming World\u2019, researchers found no link between <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//20//fossil-fuel-phaseout-becomes-cop30s-biggest-talking-point-but-will-it-ever-happen/">global warming and fossil fuels<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 with the phrase only being used once in a teacher note, and not as part of any core learning outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The report also argues that Shell \"shifts responsibility\u201d from systemic causes to individual behaviour or invention, minimising corporate and policy accountability. <\/p>\n<h2>Should Queensland Museum\u2019s resources be axed?<\/h2>\n<p>Comms Declare\u2019s founder Belinda Noble says the findings raise \u201curgent concerns\u201d for Queensland parents that their children are being taught \u201cbiased, half-truths\u201d about climate change and the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//12//03//eu-lawmakers-agree-to-ban-russian-gas-imports-by-2027/">energy future<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is climate obstruction dressed up as education,\u201d Noble adds. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t let Big Tobacco sponsor teaching materials. Fossil fuel companies shouldn\u2019t shape how kids learn about the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queensland Conservation Council campaigner Charlie Cox argues most Queensland families would be \u201calarmed\u201d to see how \u201cheavy-handed and misleading\u201d Shell\u2019s influence has been on the state museum for the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fossil fuel-funded materials leave our kids without the scientific foundations they need to navigate the world they\u2019re inheriting,\u201d she says. \u201cScience should inform politics, not the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cox, along with Comms Declare and other environmentalists, is now calling on Queensland Museum to end its long-standing partnership with<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//13//dutch-ngo-hits-shell-with-fresh-legal-challenge-and-the-impact-could-be-enormous/"> <strong>Shell<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>What does the museum say about the claims?<\/h2>\n<p>However, Queensland Museum did not answer Euronews Green when directly asked if it plans on scrapping the materials.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a spokesperson said that Shell's QGC business does not authorise any content and that the museum develops all learning resources to align with the Australian Curriculum and the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority. <\/p>\n<p>\"Since mid-2024, Queensland Museum's small team of education specialists have been systematically reviewing 130 learning resources to align with the updated Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum,\" the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>A Shell spokesperson says it has a \"long and valued\" relationship with the museum to support the Future Makers program, which encourages children to take an interest in STEM, adding: \"We have no role in developing or approving any of the museum's 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The company will have all accounts removed by 10 December, the day the restrictions come into force.\u00a0\n\nChildren can still keep their Messenger account so they can use it to connect with friends and family without having access to Facebook.\u00a0\n\nMeta said it started notifying teens that their accounts would be deleted as early as November 19, so they had two weeks to decide how to save their contacts and memories. Instagram users can make a copy of their data and export it to an external device.\u00a0\n\nThe company will also collect the contact information for the under-16s with accounts so they can get back in touch with them when they are 16, so they can reopen their accounts, Meta said.\u00a0\n\nFor anyone above 16 who might accidentally have their account removed, Meta said they could use an age verification platform, send in a government ID or a video selfie to get their accounts back.\u00a0\n\nMia Garlick, Meta\u2019s policy director for Australia and New Zealand, told the Australian parliament last month that there are approximately 450,000 under-16 users of Instagram and Facebook, two of Meta\u2019s social media platforms.\n\nMeta, Snapchat, YouTube don\u2019t agree but will comply with ban\n\nUnder Australia\u2019s new restrictions, children will be unable to create an account but will still be able to access the platforms despite not logging in.\n\nAustralia\u2019s new restrictions are a way to protect young Australians from \u201cpressures and risks that users can be exposed to while logged in to social media accounts,\u201d according to the country\u2019s internet safety regulator.\n\nWhile Meta says it will comply, it believes \u201ccutting teens off from their friends and communities isn\u2019t the answer,\u201d and will continue working with the Australian government to find another solution.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThis new law\u2026 will result in inconsistent protections across the many apps they use,\u201d a blog post from the company reads, adding that teenagers won\u2019t have the built-in safeguards that they used to with their accounts.\n\nMeta said it supports another solution instead: requiring parental approval for any app downloads that a child under 16 tries to do, a method that\u2019s being used in 20 American states.\u00a0\n\nThis approach means parents could \u201capprove the download and verify their teen\u2019s age when setting up their child\u2019s phone,\u201d which could eliminate the need for age verification, the company said.\u00a0\n\nRepresentatives from Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, have previously said they don\u2019t agree with the ban but will comply with it.\u00a0\n\nTikTok and Snapchat will be using \u201cage assurance mechanisms\u201d to make sure their platforms identify the under-16s with accounts and delete them ahead of 10 December.\u00a0\n\nIn recent days, the Guardian Australia said the ban has reportedly been extended to Lemon8, a \u201clifestyle-community focused app\u201d powered by TikTok, which saw a surge in interest because it was previously not included in the ban.\u00a0\n\nThe eSafety Commissioner said the list of restricted apps could be updated until the ban comes into effect on 10 December. So far, the list excludes video gaming platforms such as Steam, Discord and Roblox, along with messaging apps like WhatsApp.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Meta says it is starting to remove the accounts of teenagers under the age of 16 ahead of Australia\u2019s world-first social media ban. <\/p>\n<p>Under the new Australian law, which goes into effect on December 10, children under 16 will be unable to create or keep accounts on platforms such as Facebook, X, Threads, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, X, Reddit, and Google-owned YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>If these platforms are found to violate the law, they could face stiff penalties of 50 million Australian dollars (\u20ac28 million). <\/p>\n<p>On December 4, Meta <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////medium.com//meta-australia-policy-blog//removing-access-to-instagram-threads-and-facebook-for-under-16s-in-australia-1ab448660c0f/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a>in a blog post that it will begin removing Instagram, Threads and Facebook for teens under 16 and will block the creation of new accounts. The company will have all accounts removed by 10 December, the day the restrictions come into force. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//11//05//australia-adds-reddit-and-kick-to-world-leading-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16/">Australia adds Reddit and Kick to world-leading social media ban for children under 16<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Children can still keep their Messenger account so they can use it to connect with friends and family without having access to Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>Meta said it started notifying teens that their accounts would be deleted as early as November 19, so they had two weeks to decide how to save their contacts and memories. Instagram<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////help.instagram.com//181231772500920?fbclid=IwY2xjawOCv7JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF3RklFS0VOVmQzbmpRbTI3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQBMAABHogR%5FK4UsKOSAIsMnY6aZkSdEpnXgw%5Fl87ClWI8GtdSn87CE4hRPg5QuNlXy%5Faem%5FzR0mRskrJ23431Qn9h89ow\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>users<\/strong> <\/a>can make a copy of their data and export it to an external device. <\/p>\n<p>The company will also collect the contact information for the under-16s with accounts so they can get back in touch with them when they are 16, so they can reopen their accounts, Meta said. <\/p>\n<p>For anyone above 16 who might accidentally have their account removed, Meta said they could use an age verification platform, send in a government ID or a video selfie to get their accounts back. <\/p>\n<p>Mia Garlick, Meta\u2019s policy director for Australia and New Zealand, told the Australian parliament <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//10//28//meta-tiktok-and-snapchat-say-they-disagree-but-will-comply-with-australias-social-media-ba/">last month<\/strong><\/a> that there are approximately 450,000 under-16 users of Instagram and Facebook, two of Meta\u2019s social media platforms.<\/p>\n<h2>Meta, Snapchat, YouTube don\u2019t agree but will comply with ban<\/h2>\n<p>Under Australia\u2019s new restrictions, children will be unable to create an account but will still be able to access the platforms despite not logging in.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s new restrictions are a way to protect young Australians from \u201cpressures and risks that users can be exposed to while logged in to social media accounts,\u201d according to the country\u2019s internet safety <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.esafety.gov.au//about-us//industry-regulation//social-media-age-restrictions/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>regulator<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Meta says it will comply, it believes \u201ccutting teens off from their friends and communities isn\u2019t the answer,\u201d and will continue working with the Australian government to find another solution. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new law\u2026 will result in inconsistent protections across the many apps they use,\u201d a blog post from the company reads, adding that teenagers won\u2019t have the built-in safeguards that they used to with their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said it supports another solution instead: requiring parental approval for any app downloads that a child under 16 tries to do, a method that\u2019s being used in 20 American states. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li 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assurance mechanisms\u201d to make sure their platforms identify the under-16s with accounts and delete them ahead of 10 December. <\/p>\n<p>In recent days, the Guardian Australia <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.theguardian.com//australia-news//2025//dec//02//australian-children-moving-to-new-social-app-lemon8-but-owner-expected-to-restrict-users-to-over-16s/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a> the ban has reportedly been extended to Lemon8, a \u201clifestyle-community focused app\u201d <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////play.google.com//store//apps//details?id=com.bd.nproject&hl=en\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>powered<\/strong><\/a> by TikTok, which saw a surge in interest because it was previously not included in the ban. <\/p>\n<p>The eSafety Commissioner said the <a 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Previous rejections, including one in spring last year, were based on claims that BHP's offer undervalued Anglo American and its future prospects.\n\nBHP issued a statement on Monday formally announcing its withdrawal.\n\n\u201cFollowing preliminary discussions with the Board of Anglo American, BHP confirms that it is no longer considering a combination of the two companies.\"\n\nThe retreat marks a clear shift for the company that placed so much effort into a merger with Anglo American. A successful deal would have created a dominant global force in copper production \u2014 the metal at the heart of global electric vehicle and microchip production \u2014 consolidating major assets under one roof.\n\n\u201cWhilst BHP continues to believe that a combination with Anglo American would have had strong strategic merits and created significant value for all stakeholders, BHP is confident in the highly compelling potential of its own organic growth strategy,\" the statement continued.\n\nAnglo American, founded in Johannesburg in 1917, has a portfolio that spans several jurisdictions. 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Previous rejections, including one in spring last year, were based on claims that BHP's offer undervalued Anglo American and its future prospects.<\/p>\n<p>BHP issued a statement on Monday formally announcing its withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing preliminary discussions with the Board of Anglo American, BHP confirms that it is no longer considering a combination of the two companies.\"<\/p>\n<p>The retreat marks a clear shift for the company that placed so much effort into a merger with Anglo American. A successful deal would have created a dominant global force in copper production \u2014 the metal at the heart of global electric vehicle and microchip production \u2014 consolidating major assets under one roof. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst BHP continues to believe that a combination with Anglo American would have had strong strategic merits and created significant value for all stakeholders, BHP is confident in the highly compelling potential of its own organic growth strategy,\" the statement continued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//07//21//how-waste-heat-from-hamburgs-copper-smelter-is-warming-the-city-but-not-the-planet/">How waste heat from Hamburg\u2019s copper smelter is warming the city but not the planet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//08//04//why-copper-aluminium-and-steel-are-at-the-core-of-trumps-maga-ideology/">Why copper, aluminium and steel are at the core of Trump's MAGA ideology<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Anglo American, founded in Johannesburg in 1917, has a portfolio that spans several jurisdictions. Some are located where governments are especially sensitive to strategic resource ownership, including in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>BHP's merger bids required Anglo American undertake \u201ctwo separate demergers\u201d of its stakes in Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore as an interconditional part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The board said the required twin demergers would create \u201csignificant uncertainty\u201d for its investors, noting that Anglo Platinum and Kumba together account for \u201capproximately $15 billion (\u20ac13bn) and 34% of the proposed total consideration\u201d and represent a \u201csubstantial amount of stock to distribute\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>BHP\u2019s decision to step back suggests a company recalibrating its appetite for risk. 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