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Sunday, December 14, 2025
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Sunday, December 14, 2025
Palestinian Authority condemns Bondi attack without mentioning Jews or Hanukkah
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Emergency workers wait on a street after a deadly terror shooting targeting the Jewish community at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on December 14, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)
The Palestinian Authority foreign ministry condemns the shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 11 people, saying it rejects all forms of violence and terrorism.
The English-language statement does not acknowledge that the shooting attack targeted Jews or a Hanukkah event. It does add a condemnation of “Israel’s ongoing killing of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.”
The ministry says it “reiterates its firm rejection of all forms of violence, terrorism and extremism, which contradict humanitarian values,” expressing in a statement its “full solidarity” with “friendly Australia.”
Australia recognized a Palestinian state in September alongside Britain and Canada in a historic shift in decades of Western foreign policy.
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