# Awesome bravery amid the bullets on Bondi Beach: A year after the massacre of men, women and children celebrating a Jewish festival by the ocean in Sydney, survivors recall the desperate battle for survival for the first time

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/awesome-bravery-amid-the-bullets-on-bondi-beach-a-year-after-the-massacre-of-men-women-and-children-celebrating-a-jewish-festival-by-the-ocean-in-sydney-survivors-recall-the-desperate-battle-for-su/
- Published: 2026-11-14T00:48:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-14T01:03:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16291615/bravery-bullets-Bondi-Beach-massacreJewish-festival-Sydney-survivors-battle.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Survivors recount the Bondi Beach shooting ahead of its first anniversary.
- Two gunmen killed 15 people during the attack.
- Eva Geller later died, bringing the toll to 16.

## Summary

Survivors of the Bondi Beach shooting have described the terror and split-second acts of courage during an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah gathering in Sydney. Their accounts, shared ahead of the first anniversary, show how an afternoon family celebration became a mass shooting and the decisions people made to protect themselves and others.

On 14 December, two gunmen opened fire from a footbridge overlooking the event at Archer Park. The article says 15 people were killed during the attack, including a ten-year-old girl, and that 90-year-old survivor Eva Geller later died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 16; hundreds were gathered at the event.

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