According to today's Financial Times reporting, at least 11 people were killed after gunmen opened fire on a Jewish Hannukah festival in Sydney, Australia. The attack is being treated as
terrorism, that's what authorities state. According to the police, more than 1,000 people attended the event and the shooters had been taken position on a bridge looking down over a park on the
beach before opening the fire. "A targeted event on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hannuka", that is what Australian's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. One of the armed shooters was
even known to the Australia's intelligence agency, but was apparently not seen as an "immediate threat". Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had written to Australia this year already as
antisemitism could be stated to grow. He accuses the Australian government as follows: "Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia".
Report written by Nic Fildes, Sydney, Financial Times of today.