My Zionist friend, everyone is sympathizing with the Jews on this one. Everyone is condemning the terrorist attack against Jews in Sydney.Witnesses describe ‘absolute bloodbath’ in Bondi Hanukkah attack
"I saw blood gushing from me. I saw people hit, saw people fall to the ground," said Ostrovsky, “My only concern was, where are my kids? Where are my kids? Where’s my wife, where’s my family?”
Arsen Ostrovsky, an Australian-Israeli activist, was injured in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack on Dec. 14, 2025, in Sydney.(photo credit: SCREENSHOT/JTA)
By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA DECEMBER 14, 2025 22:25 Updated: DECEMBER 14, 2025 22:51
Arsen Ostrovsky moved back to Australia from Israel two weeks ago to helm the Sydney office of AIJAC, the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council.
On Sunday, he was one of scores of people shot during an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. At least 11 people were killed, as well as one of the attackers.
Ostrovsky, who grew up in Sydney after leaving the Soviet Union as a child, was injured in the head and treated at the scene.
“It was actually chaos. We didn’t know what was happening, where the gunfire was coming from. I saw blood gushing from me. I saw people hit, saw people fall to the ground,” he told a local news station, his head bandaged with blood visible on his face and clothing. “My only concern was, where are my kids? Where are my kids? Where’s my wife, where’s my family?”
He said he had been briefly separated from his family before finding them safe.
An aerial view of emergency personnel working at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025 (credit: NINE NETWORK/SEVEN NETWORK/AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION/Handout via REUTERS)
'An absolute bloodbath'
“I saw children falling to the floor, I saw elderly, I saw invalids,” he said. “It was an absolute bloodbath, blood gushing everywhere.”
The attack struck at a centerpiece of Jewish community in Sydney, home to an estimated 40,000 Jews, nearly half of Australia’s total Jewish population. At least 1,000 people had turned up for the beachside celebration on the first night of Hanukkah.
“There were people dead everywhere, young, old, rabbi - they’re all dead,” Vlad, a Jewish chaplain with the State Emergency Service, told a local TV station. “And then two people died while we’re trying to save them, because the ambulance didn’t arrive on time.”
He said the people who died were an elderly woman who had been shot in the leg and an “older gentleman” who was shot in the head.
“It’s not just people, it’s people that I know, people from our community, people that we know well, people that we see often,” said Vlad, who had covered his 8-year-old son with his body during the attack. “My rabbi is dead.”
The rabbi who was killed, Eli Schlanger, moved to Bondi Beach as an emissary of the Chabad movement 18 years ago. He was the father of five children, including a son born two months ago.
“He wasn’t some distant figure. He was the guy staying up late planning the logistics for a Menorah lighting that most people will take for granted. The one stressing about the weather. The one making sure there were enough latkes and the kids weren’t bored,” wrote Eliezer Tewel, another Chabad emissary, on social media.
“He was just doing his job. Showing up. Being the constant, reliable presence for his community,” Tewel added. “And that’s where the gut punch lands: He was killed while doing the most basic, kindest, most normal part of our lives. It wasn’t a battlefield. It was a Hanukkah party.”
And supposedly all Pakistanis hate Indians and all Indians hate Pakistanis many Bangladeshi hate Pakistanis hate is hate not saying most hate anyone that’s you but people do have legitimate reasons to distrust countries and it’s up to those people to help change those feelings
Yes, where is PTI remarks ....anyone show me too...
Lol.. you know you don't make sense at all.
Pakistan as a country had absolutely nothing to do with this tragic incident. Who is "blaming" it anyway?
Maybe Imran farted and some people who are continuously keeping an eye on his every sound heard him saying that "put the blame on Pakistan"....
At the end , PTI free lancer defend and confront Indians on all social media front .....
Recalling Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in Israel, he says: “We’ve lived through worse. We’re going to get through this, and we’re going to get the bastards that did this.”
You moron, everyone is siding with the Jews on this one, and condemning the terrorist attacks against the Jews.Bloodied but ‘okay,’ Arsen Ostrovsky, who just moved from Israel to Sydney, describes ‘blood gushing in front of me’ on Bondi Beach
14 December 2025, 3:35 pm
Arsen Ostrovsky, who was with his family at Bondi Beach in Sydney, during the deadly December 14, 2025, terror shooting, describes the attack in an Australian TV interview. (Sky News Australia screenshot)
Bandaged and his face covered in blood, Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human rights lawyer who recently moved from Israel to Sydney to work with the local Jewish community, has described the deadly terror attack as it unfolded around him and his family.
In an interview with Australian television, Ostrovsky, who chairs the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council in Sydney, describes the onslaught: “I was here with my family. It was a Hanukkah celebration. There were hundreds of people. There were children, there were elderly. Families enjoying themselves. Children, kids, at a festival, playing. Then all of a sudden, it’s absolute chaos. There’s guns, fire everywhere, people ducking. It was absolute chaos. We didn’t know what was happening, where the gunfire was coming from.”
“I saw blood gushing in front of me,” he goes on. “I saw people hit, saw people fall to the ground. My only concern was, Where are my kids? Where are my kids? Where’s my wife? Where’s my family?”
“I lived in Israel the last 13 years,” he continues. “We came here only two weeks ago to work with a Jewish community, to fight antisemitism, to fight this bloodthirsty, ravaging hatred.”
Recalling Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in Israel, he says: “We’ve lived through worse. We’re going to get through this, and we’re going to get the bastards that did this.”
Asked whether he saw the gunmen, Ostrovsky replies: “I did. I saw at least one gunman firing, with what looked like a shotgun, firing randomly in all directions. I saw children falling to the floor, elderly…”
“It was an absolute bloodbath, blood gushing everywhere. October seventh, that’s the last time I saw this,” he notes. (Ostrovsky has described being at Kibbutz Be’eri days after the Hamas onslaught.)
“I never thought I would see this in Australia. Not in my lifetime… On Bondi Beach, of all places, this iconic place.”
Asked about his family, he says: “My children, my wife is safe, thank God. They’re okay. They managed to get away. But I didn’t know where they were. There’s no greater fear, no greater horror, [than] not knowing where your family is. They’re okay. I’ll be okay.”
“I got hit in the head, I’m bleeding, I’ve lost blood,” he says. “There are people around me that are far worse. I’ll be okay. We’ll be okay as a community,” he adds, insisting that the hatred will be defeated.
To be honest, this guy in the pic should have been on a hospital bed instead of on the beach having a nice photoshoot.Bloodied but ‘okay,’ Arsen Ostrovsky, who just moved from Israel to Sydney, describes ‘blood gushing in front of me’ on Bondi Beach
14 December 2025, 3:35 pm
Arsen Ostrovsky, who was with his family at Bondi Beach in Sydney, during the deadly December 14, 2025, terror shooting, describes the attack in an Australian TV interview. (Sky News Australia screenshot)
Bandaged and his face covered in blood, Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human rights lawyer who recently moved from Israel to Sydney to work with the local Jewish community, has described the deadly terror attack as it unfolded around him and his family.
In an interview with Australian television, Ostrovsky, who chairs the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council in Sydney, describes the onslaught: “I was here with my family. It was a Hanukkah celebration. There were hundreds of people. There were children, there were elderly. Families enjoying themselves. Children, kids, at a festival, playing. Then all of a sudden, it’s absolute chaos. There’s guns, fire everywhere, people ducking. It was absolute chaos. We didn’t know what was happening, where the gunfire was coming from.”
“I saw blood gushing in front of me,” he goes on. “I saw people hit, saw people fall to the ground. My only concern was, Where are my kids? Where are my kids? Where’s my wife? Where’s my family?”
“I lived in Israel the last 13 years,” he continues. “We came here only two weeks ago to work with a Jewish community, to fight antisemitism, to fight this bloodthirsty, ravaging hatred.”
Recalling Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in Israel, he says: “We’ve lived through worse. We’re going to get through this, and we’re going to get the bastards that did this.”
Asked whether he saw the gunmen, Ostrovsky replies: “I did. I saw at least one gunman firing, with what looked like a shotgun, firing randomly in all directions. I saw children falling to the floor, elderly…”
“It was an absolute bloodbath, blood gushing everywhere. October seventh, that’s the last time I saw this,” he notes. (Ostrovsky has described being at Kibbutz Be’eri days after the Hamas onslaught.)
“I never thought I would see this in Australia. Not in my lifetime… On Bondi Beach, of all places, this iconic place.”
Asked about his family, he says: “My children, my wife is safe, thank God. They’re okay. They managed to get away. But I didn’t know where they were. There’s no greater fear, no greater horror, [than] not knowing where your family is. They’re okay. I’ll be okay.”
“I got hit in the head, I’m bleeding, I’ve lost blood,” he says. “There are people around me that are far worse. I’ll be okay. We’ll be okay as a community,” he adds, insisting that the hatred will be defeated.
