‘The inevitable has happened’: Bondi beach attack follows rise in antisemitic incidents

Sunday’s attack was Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in almost three decades. Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

Shortly after the mass shooting targeting Australia’s Jewish community on Sunday, Rabbi Levi Wolff of Central Sydney Synagogue told reporters that “the inevitable has happened now”.

Wolff was speaking in Bondi, close to where two men armed with powerful rifles or shotguns had just attacked an event celebrating Hanukah, the Jewish religious festival. At least 12 people were killed, including one alleged gunman, and dozens were injured in Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in almost three decades.