Death Toll Rises to 16 in Bondi Beach Shooting Targeting Australia's Jewish Community on First Day of Hanukkah

Sixteen people are dead and 40 remain hospitalised after gunmen opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach in what Australian authorities have declared a deliberate terrorist attack on the country's Jewish community (Credit: Screenshot from X/Twitter)

Sixteen people are now dead after gunmen opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday evening, with 40 others still in hospital.

Australian authorities have declared the incident a 'targeted terrorist attack', as the nation grapples with its deadliest mass shooting since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.