The death toll in the massacre at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in Australia has risen to 16, an Australian minister says.
New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park is cited by the Sydney Morning Herald saying that 16 people have died, including a child who died of their wounds in a hospital.
Earlier, a Jewish community leader said that the victims included a 12-year-old girl who had succumbed to her wounds.
It is not clear if the figure of 16 includes one of the gunmen who was killed. Earlier, the death toll had stood at 11 victims and one of the perpetrators.
“This is absolutely horrendous for the community broadly, but particularly the Jewish community, but for Australians,” Park says on Nine’s Today show, according to the news outlet.
Australia said to be investigating if Sydney attack was part of larger Iranian plot
The Mossad notified Australian intelligence about Iranian-backed “terror infrastructure” in the country planning to carry attacks on Jewish targets about a month ago, Channel 12 reports.
Almost all of the infrastructure was taken apart by Australian authorities after receiving the Israeli warning, according to the report, and Australian intelligence is investigating whether the perpetrators of today’s attack were part of the Iranian effort.
In October, the Mossad released details about a trans-national terror network run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, which was behind a string of recent attacks on Jewish sites in Western countries, including Australia.
According to Israel’s spy agency, senior IRGC-Quds Force commander Sardar Ammar heads the network, which intensified its efforts to attack Jewish and Israeli sites around the world since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel.
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