A father-son terror cell unleashed hell on Sydney's Bondi Beach during a joyous Hanukkah celebration on December 14, 2025, gunning down 15 revelers including a child from a bridge in Australia's deadliest shooting, with 40 others wounded amid ISIS flags and a car bomb plot. Surviving shooter Naveed Akram, 24, born in Australia to Indian migrant Sajid Akram, 50 who died in the police shootout faced 59 charges Wednesday, including 15 murders, terrorism, explosives use, and intent to maim after waking from a coma.
The Akram duo, armed with six licensed firearms from Sajid (a 1998 student visa arrival from Hyderabad retaining Indian citizenship), targeted over 1,000 dancing Jews on Hanukkah's first night, firing indiscriminately in an ISIS-inspired antisemitic rampage flagged by NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon and AFP's Krissy Barrett. Raids uncovered IS flags in their Campsie Airbnb and Bonnyrigg home vehicles, plus a homemade bomb, with Naveed's 2019 security watch and their November Philippines trip (Davao focus) under scrutiny despite Manila's no-training denial.
As funerals begin and 20 victims including two cops linger in hospitals (one critical), PM Anthony Albanese condemned the "deliberate Jewish attack," vowing justice amid global outrage. The Akram probe exposes radicalization risks in quiet suburbs, thrusting Australia into heightened terror alerts post-ISIS defeats.