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00:00This program includes graphic and distressing vision of the Bondi terrorism attack.
00:06It also includes coarse language.
00:31It's the worst terror attack in this country's history, a horror that has left Australians
00:40grappling for answers.
00:43Two men armed with weapons and seething with hatred, targeting Jewish Australians.
00:53You could hear it.
00:54You could hear the projectile, and he was just, shoot, reload, shoot, reload.
01:05He's still on the bridge, bro.
01:06Four Corners has pieced together a definitive account of the terror in the words of those
01:12who experienced it and those who lost loved ones.
01:16People were being shot.
01:18People were dying.
01:19If you got up, you would be dead.
01:21I was screaming to her, like, Matilda, Matilda, and she was still conscious, like, and she
01:28was, she could just, just told me that she was hard to breathe.
01:34This isn't about surviving now.
01:37It's about how I'm going to die and how's Shemi going to die.
01:42Amid the horror, those who ran into the gunfire and heroes who protected their loved ones.
01:50He died protecting my mum, being a proud show, lighting the light.
01:59Families of the victims and the friends just need to know that there was people tirelessly
02:04working to save their lives.
02:09How are you bearing up?
02:10Not great.
02:13It's terrific.
02:18On Four Corners, a two-part special series on the massacre that shocked this country.
02:23Next week, the secret lives of the gunmen and the intelligence failures in the lead up to
02:28the attack.
02:28In this episode, we speak to survivors of the slaughter and the families of the victims,
02:34and we explore how Australia is dealing with the scars from that December day.
02:40Had there been more decisive, firm action at the beginning, true leadership, that this
02:45wouldn't have happened.
02:47I want her to be remembered like a light that will overcome darkness.
03:19The sun is starting to dip on another stunning summer's day.
03:23At Australia's most famous beach.
03:33While crowds soak up Bondi's surf and sand, behind the beach at Archer Park, a community
03:40is gathering for the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah.
03:45It symbolizes the victory of light over darkness, a belief in miracles, a belief that even if
03:53you're small, even if you're the underdog, eventually goodness prevails.
04:10For me, this event was always something to, like, where we go with kids.
04:15They love it, you know.
04:19Since Matilda was born, we went there every year.
04:24Ten-year-old Matilda is the daughter of two Ukrainian Jews, Michael and Valentina, who
04:30came to Australia for a better life.
04:32And when she was born, they named her in honor of this country.
04:38We were thinking of the name and Matilda came to me.
04:44Matilda, it's such an Australian name.
04:48It has, you know, the wealthy Matilda, Matildas.
04:51For me, it was always associated with Australia.
04:55I thought it'd be a great name.
04:59This is the 31st year the lighting of the Hanukkah candles has been held at Archer Park.
05:06Also enjoying the food and festivities is Israeli tourist Kobi Farkash.
05:11Just to feel the Hanukkah.
05:14The Hanukkah celebration has a special emphasis on family.
05:19It was lovely.
05:21We walked in.
05:22It's just a whole bunch of kids, mostly young and old.
05:27So, little, little, little babies.
05:29Real family event.
05:30There was big bubbles blowing.
05:33Donuts.
05:34Hot dogs.
05:36Petting zoo for the kids.
05:38Giant Connect Four.
05:39Take some video of me for a minute and then I'll take...
05:42Among the crowd is event organizer and community leader Rabbi Ellie Schlanger.
05:50Also enjoying the celebrations are Holocaust survivor Alex Kleitman and his wife Larissa.
05:57Hanukkah is one of the beautiful and ancient celebrations of the Jewish culture.
06:04It's just a beautiful tradition to be surrounded by Jewish people or any people
06:12and to celebrate light against darkness.
06:19For annual attendees Reuven and Leah Morrison, Bondi is a special place.
06:26My parents met on Bondi Beach as two Russian teenage refugees.
06:31My mum was 16 and my dad was 17.
06:37For Bondi local Jessica Chapnick Khan, this Hanukkah gathering is something her five-year-old
06:43daughter Shemi refuses to miss.
06:46She dragged me out of heat, dragging me by the arm.
06:49I want to go to the Hanukkah party.
06:51I want to see the Hanukkah party.
06:55We were meant to be there.
06:59For 10-year-old Matilda, one of the highlights is getting her face painted.
07:03She wanted a dolphin and she was so happy.
07:08When they finished, she asked me to take a photo and she asked me to take a photo from
07:13one side and then from another side.
07:16Like, you know, it was so cute and she was really happy.
07:24Documenting the Hanukkah festivities for the Jewish community is police officer turned photographer
07:28Peter Marr.
07:31What do you say as he's heading out the door that day?
07:35I said to him, knowing that a lot of people I knew would be there, give them my love.
07:52But as the Jewish community celebrates by the beach, a darkness is about to descend.
07:59Two men, a father and son, are pulling up on Campbell Parade just metres down the road.
08:0650-year-old Sajid Akram and his son Naveed have driven from their Airbnb in southwestern Sydney
08:12with two shotguns, a rifle, improvised explosive devices and two Islamic State flags.
08:2124-year-old Naveed Akram walks onto the footbridge overlooking Archer Park and opens fire.
08:32The last thing I remember looking at were the bubbles.
08:36It was so beautiful, these bubbles.
08:39It was rainbows, just huge bubbles.
08:42You know, those really big ones, they're really impressive.
08:44And the rainbows were just filling the space.
08:49And I said, show me, look, bubbles.
08:51And that's when I heard the first shot.
08:56My husband had my daughter.
08:57I was in a conversation with friends.
09:00I knew that my son was with his other grandma.
09:03And I went to go look for them.
09:06I heard a couple of very, very loud bangs.
09:11I'm not familiar with the sound of gunfire.
09:13I've never heard it before in my life.
09:18For Israeli tourist Kobi Farkash, who is filming as he flees, it's a narrow escape.
09:25His footage captures 27-year-old French engineer Dan Elkayam also running away right next to him.
09:35What happened to him?
09:37He's shot, he's killed, he's died because of the terror.
09:52Another who's hit in the opening barrage is Yangi Supa, a medical volunteer on duty at the Hanukkah event.
09:59All of a sudden I felt a zap in my body and I just fell to the ground like in
10:04slow motion.
10:05I fell and then everyone starts screaming as people start running.
10:09I think quite quickly I was shot, but at first I was like, what's just happened to me?
10:14And then, yeah, 15 seconds, the gunshots, everyone running.
10:24With Naveed Akram positioned on the footbridge, his father Sajid is being confronted back near their car.
10:32Dash cam footage captures a moment of heroism as 69-year-old Boris Gurman wrestles the gun from Sajid Akram.
10:40Both Boris and his wife Sophia are then shot dead.
10:48Men, women and children run for their lives.
10:52But for many of those celebrating Hanukkah in Archer Park, there's nowhere to run to.
10:57They are pinned down and trapped.
10:59Where's the fucking police, you fucking bastards?
11:05People at the park only remember seeing two police officers on duty.
11:11I thought that it's going to be over in a second.
11:13I thought there will be police or something.
11:17You know, like, OK, this happened.
11:20In my mind, it's going to end in any moment now.
11:27But the shooting just kept happening.
11:31Jessica Rosen is separated from her husband and two children.
11:39Then I saw someone in front of me fall and they were bleeding.
11:45And I understood it was no longer OK for me to be running around.
11:48It was no longer safe.
11:50Caught the sight of a little girl.
11:53She was screaming for her parents.
11:56Didn't have my own kids with me.
11:59But I took maybe five steps towards her.
12:04I grabbed her, ran back to the chairs and lay down behind the chairs.
12:09Covered the little girl with my body and stayed there while the shooting went on.
12:20Jessica Chapnick Khan wants to run to the beach, but it's too far.
12:25So she takes shelter with her daughter, Shemi, behind a low concrete barrier.
12:32My instinct was to cover every inch of her body with my body.
12:38I don't know how I covered her.
12:41And there were other children under my legs and parents screaming.
12:46Children were just losing it and popping their heads up.
12:52And that Shemi lay still flat.
12:57She didn't say a word. She didn't move.
13:03And I did my best to contain the children that were there just with my legs.
13:09The Akrams are on the footbridge as a police car shrieks by.
13:16Sajid Akram then descends the footbridge stairs towards those cowering in Archer Park.
13:26I am pinned down behind several rows of chairs.
13:34I am lying on top of this little girl.
13:38There are two shooters.
13:40One on the footbridge, one pacing around in front of the fencing.
13:46It seemed casually. It seemed like he was smiling.
13:51People were being shot. People were dying.
13:54If you got up, you would be dead.
14:00As Sajid Akram prowls and fires from just metres away,
14:04Jessica Rosen tries to calm the little girl.
14:07I got you. I got you.
14:10I got you. I got you.
14:12I got you. I got you.
14:14I knew that I needed to be calm for myself.
14:17And I knew that I needed to be calm for her.
14:20She asked me what's happening.
14:23She asked me who I was.
14:27She asked me where her mummy and daddy was quite a lot of times.
14:29She said she wanted her mummy, she wanted her daddy.
14:32I told her I understood that and that we were just going to stay here for a little while.
14:37We're going to stay here and we're going to be nice and stay.
14:41No one's going to hurt us.
14:43Can you hide?
14:45Yeah, we can hide.
14:46They can hide, but for some it's no protection from the bullets.
14:50Oh, that guy's got shot. Oh, oh my God.
14:55A woman lying a metre and a half away from me.
14:59She was shot in the head.
15:03I saw her.
15:05Her body must have turned with the impact.
15:08She was not a woman anymore.
15:11She was a body.
15:13Could have been me.
15:15We couldn't move.
15:16We needed to stay where we were.
15:19I tried to...
15:21I was lying on top of the little girl trying to shield her fuse.
15:24I really hoped she didn't see.
15:26Get down!
15:28Get on the ground!
15:30Another parent at the Hanukkah event is Leon,
15:33who threw himself on his youngest daughter when the shooting started.
15:38I had a few of the bullets, particularly from...
15:42The gunman up on the bridge fly just past my head.
15:49You could hear it.
15:51You could hear the projectile.
15:53Also, the other gunman, the older gunman,
15:56he was just...
16:00Shoot.
16:02Reload.
16:03Shoot. Reload.
16:07Wounded and on the ground,
16:08medical volunteer Yankee Super is in serious trouble.
16:14The bullet went in my back and missed my spine by about two centimetres.
16:19But the shrapnel collapsed my right lung.
16:24Straight away blood started pouring out of my nose and mouth.
16:29And it became difficult to breathe and very difficult to talk as well.
16:32At that point I grabbed my radio.
16:35I see the breath.
16:36All right, time four, where are you bleeding from?
16:38Where are you bleeding from?
16:40Distressed and breathless, Yankee makes an emergency call.
16:4423, you need to calm down and try to stop the bleeding.
16:47I can't breathe.
16:48I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
17:01These are a lot of chunks of things.
17:02And then I realised, oh my God,
17:04my God,
17:07They're body parts.
17:09Before that I'd been like praying and kind of,
17:13You know, wanting to survive,
17:15And that when that spray came over,
17:17I realised,
17:19Oh, this isn't about surviving now.
17:22It's about how I'm going to die.
17:24And how's Shemmy going to die?
17:28Are they gunshots?
17:30Where is he?
17:32I wouldn't go up to be careful.
17:34From his home over the road from Archer Park,
17:37freelance cameraman Nick Castellaro,
17:39here's the rapid pops of gunshots.
17:45And I got up and I was coming down and people were coming in.
17:49So people from over the road were taking shelter here?
17:52Obviously taking shelter.
17:54And I got here and I looked across the road
17:57and I saw the Jewish festival
17:59and I knew what was going on.
18:03For this veteran who has worked around the world,
18:06there is just one thing to do.
18:08The only decision I had to make was what camera do I take?
18:12I knew this was a major event.
18:16Inching towards the source of the gunfire,
18:19Nick Castellaro will capture the chaos, carnage and cruelty
18:23of Sajid and Naveed Akram's terror attack from just metres away.
18:31Among those under fire in the park are Alex and Larissa Kleitman.
18:37Amid the barrage of bullets,
18:39Alex moves to cover his wife of 57 years with his body.
18:46He always described mum to be the love of his life
18:50and his whole life
18:52and that he would do everything to protect her
18:55and I think this is what he was doing,
19:00making sure that he close to her, near her,
19:02provides this shield to protect her.
19:05I just grabbed a couple of medic kits.
19:29I don't know what I grabbed but I just grabbed anything
19:31and we ran over into where the people were injured.
19:38McLaughlin and his team are well trained in treating trauma wounds,
19:42not running into gunfire.
19:45Were you worried that you're running into a live fire situation?
19:49A hundred percent.
19:50I could hear the shots going off while our lifeguards are in there
19:53and we were running into it, hearing it.
19:56You know, the police were telling Mouse to duck down and take cover
20:00and there was a lot of screaming.
20:02It was mayhem.
20:06Amid the mayhem, as Jessica Rosen lies on the ground
20:09shielding an unknown child from the gunfire,
20:11she hears from her husband.
20:14My husband sent me a text to say that he was safe,
20:17that he had my daughter.
20:20This is why the bullets are being fired?
20:22Bullets are still firing.
20:23We both understood that it would not be wise to call.
20:28I texted him back saying that I have a little girl
20:31and she's not mine.
20:33Someone has been shot at that point.
20:36I was actually physically dripping blood onto my phone.
20:39I took a photo, a selfie of myself
20:43to see where I was injured if I was injured.
20:49Michael and Valentina are separated from Matilda
20:52and their other daughter, six-year-old Summer.
20:54They are desperate to find them.
20:58And then I saw Matilda, she actually ran to where we were sitting
21:03because she got scared.
21:05Then I was screaming to her, like,
21:08Matilda, Matilda,
21:09and I started to crawl around those chairs to where she was.
21:15And that's when I realized that she was hurt.
21:22I took my shirt off.
21:23I was trying to, you know, cover the wound
21:26and I was trying to pull her out.
21:28We were just trying to calm her down,
21:31trying to tell her,
21:32please, just wait, wait, wait,
21:35you know, the help will be coming soon.
21:41And, yeah, she was still...
21:47She was still conscious, like,
21:49and she was...
21:51She just told me that it was hard to breathe.
21:58Alone on the footbridge,
22:00Naveed Akram briefly ceases firing,
22:02then turns and appears to shoo away people
22:05not from the Hanukkah event.
22:10He then resumes firing into Archer Park
22:13at those trying to take cover.
22:18These people came not only to slaughter Jews,
22:22obviously, that's self-evident,
22:23but in the act,
22:24they acted coolly with composure methodically
22:27to destroy as many lives as they possibly could.
22:32It's just unbelievable.
22:34As everyone takes shelter,
22:3662-year-old Reuven Morrison decides to take action.
22:41Reuven is a family friend of ours.
22:43He walked through the middle of active gunfire.
22:45I didn't understand what he was doing at the time.
22:48I yelled at him to get down,
22:50but he was just walking into danger.
22:54Through all the gunfire,
22:56my father gets up.
22:57He saw no-one was doing anything,
22:59so he got up himself to protect.
23:01He's running through the crowd
23:03and he's re-diverting the terrorists.
23:07Creeping closer to the footbridge,
23:09freelance cameraman Nick Castellaro
23:11films the chaos and carnage in the park
23:13before panning his camera
23:15to capture an act of great courage.
23:22Tackling Sajid Akram,
23:24Sutherland tobacconist Ahmed Al-Akhmed
23:26manages to disarm him.
23:30Yeah, somebody got it.
23:31Somebody got it.
23:32The tackle,
23:33he came flying into the frame
23:35and then the guy takes the gun off him
23:38and he's standing in front of him.
23:40The terrorist, for want of a better word,
23:41falls out of shot
23:42and I thought he'd shot him
23:44because the sound,
23:45there was the sound of another gun.
23:46But as it happened,
23:48he hadn't shot him.
23:48He hadn't.
23:49He hadn't.
23:50The shooting Nick Castellaro hears
23:53is actually from the footbridge.
23:55With his father disarmed,
23:57Naveed Akram begins firing
23:58at Ahmed Al-Akhmed
23:59and Israeli Geffen Bitton.
24:03Both men end up seriously wounded.
24:10As Akram retreats back
24:12towards the footbridge
24:13to rejoin his son,
24:15Reuven Morrison
24:15charges at him.
24:23At one point,
24:24he gets hold of a brick
24:25and you can see the footage
24:26of him throwing that directly
24:28at the terrorist,
24:29which threw him off in that moment.
24:30He saved lives,
24:32he saved moments,
24:33he gave people time to flee,
24:35time to hide
24:36and to be able to leave
24:37with their lives.
24:40Having thrown something
24:42at Sajid Akram,
24:43Reuven Morrison
24:44is then shot
24:45and critically wounded.
24:51How proud are you
24:52of your father?
24:53It's just so him.
24:55It epitomises
24:56how he lived his life.
24:58He did incredibly brave,
25:01incredibly heroic,
25:04incredibly selfless thing
25:05because that's the sort of person
25:07that he was.
25:09He walked in to,
25:12he put himself in danger
25:13to try and save others
25:14and he did.
25:15You think he saved lives?
25:17I do.
25:21For Jessica Chapnick-Khan,
25:23a survival instinct
25:24has kicked in.
25:27I thought,
25:28this is our moment.
25:29I'm not letting her die in this.
25:32This isn't how she dies.
25:35This isn't how we die
25:37in horror,
25:38in wailing,
25:39in gunshots,
25:41in splashing body parts,
25:43in,
25:44and I whispered,
25:45well,
25:46I don't think it was a whisper
25:47but it was a,
25:48right in her ear.
25:50I said,
25:50Shemi,
25:52go inside yourself.
25:56Go to your heart
25:57where all the love is
25:58and stay there.
25:59Stay there,
26:00my baby.
26:00Stay there.
26:04And I felt her instantly
26:06just melt into me,
26:07like she heard me.
26:08She heard me.
26:08I knew she'd heard me.
26:11By now,
26:12Nick Castellaro
26:13has joined police officers
26:15who've arrived on the scene.
26:17Suddenly,
26:18Naveed Akram swings his weapon
26:20in Nick's direction.
26:24He then seems to gesture
26:25for the cameraman
26:26to go away.
26:29So where were you, Nick?
26:31I reckon it's
26:31about here
26:32because I could see
26:33this cat's eyes, mate.
26:35It was,
26:36you know,
26:36it was that close
26:38and I,
26:38because I was moving around
26:39a bit,
26:40I know that annoyed him
26:40because he's actually
26:41gone to me,
26:42fuck off
26:43and then had a shot.
26:47He's on the bridge, mate.
26:48He's on the bridge.
26:50Girls, he's shooting.
26:51Fucking take a shot.
26:52You get a look at him.
26:53Get out of his face.
26:56In the chaos,
26:57Nick Castellaro
26:58tries to help the police
26:59track the gunman's movements.
27:01They were pinned.
27:02They didn't have
27:03line of sight to this guy.
27:06He's facing,
27:07he's got his back to you, bro.
27:08He's on the bridge.
27:09So I was doing my best
27:11to just say,
27:11like, he's coming our way
27:12or, you know,
27:13he's got his back to you
27:14or, you know.
27:15He's still on the bridge.
27:16He's still on the bridge.
27:17With Sajid Akram
27:20re-armed and rejoining
27:21his son on the footbridge,
27:23police are closing in
27:24and firing back,
27:26causing the gunman
27:28to begin taking cover.
27:30One of the officers
27:31is Detective
27:32Cesar Barraza.
27:35Suddenly,
27:35the older Akram falls,
27:38most likely shot by Barraza.
27:41The younger Akram
27:43swings round
27:44and begins firing
27:45in the detective's direction.
27:48Intent on the murder
27:49of innocence
27:50for Naveed Akram,
27:52there will be no surrender.
27:55Fucking die, cunt!
27:57Die!
28:00Just over a minute
28:02after his father,
28:03Naveed Akram,
28:04is also brought down
28:06by police fire.
28:10Fuck yeah!
28:14Yeah, they got him!
28:19He's down, he's down!
28:24At ground level,
28:25Nick Castellaro
28:26captures the moment
28:27police move on
28:28to the footbridge
28:29and the chaos that follows.
28:37One bystander
28:38is, for a moment,
28:39suspected of being
28:40part of the shooting.
28:42Another man
28:43swings a kick at him.
28:45And it kind of went
28:46from one explosive
28:47situation to another
28:49and it was really...
28:52Just crazy, man.
28:53Just crazy.
28:59Police handcuff
29:00Naveed Akram,
29:01who's wounded
29:02but alive.
29:03Fucking bastard!
29:05His father
29:06is dead.
29:13From the footbridge,
29:14Nick Castellaro
29:15moves back
29:16to Archer Park
29:17and a scene of horror.
29:25It was harder
29:26going to the park
29:26than the shootout.
29:28Pretty confronting.
29:29It was, mate.
29:30It was.
29:32When your best option
30:01is to lie on top of someone
30:03I was very, very happy
30:04and relieved
30:05to give it to her daddy.
30:08That was the first
30:09sort of sign
30:10that maybe things were okay.
30:11Stay now!
30:12Stay now!
30:13Stay now!
30:14Get the fuck down!
30:16Are you okay?
30:18Where have you been sent?
30:19Multiple people entered.
30:21I need assistance now!
30:22Stay now!
30:23Among the wounded
30:24getting treatment
30:25is medical volunteer
30:26Yankee Super.
30:27Yankee,
30:28where have you been in?
30:29Okay, be quiet.
30:30Okay.
30:31Okay.
30:32Having sheltered
30:33behind a low barrier
30:34for what seemed
30:35like an eternity,
30:37Jessica Chapnick-Kahn
30:38now has another horror
30:39to confront
30:40with her daughter.
30:41And we got up
30:43and I said to Shemi,
30:44Shemi,
30:45close your eyes,
30:45do not look around.
30:46She said,
30:47why?
30:48And I said,
30:49because
30:50we're walking forward.
30:52Mum and Shemi
30:52are walking forward
30:53and we're leaving
30:54and we don't need
30:55to see anything else.
30:57And I got up
30:58and she did exactly
31:01what I told her.
31:02She put her head
31:02right here
31:03and I looked around
31:07and I couldn't
31:09believe what I saw,
31:10that what I was feeling
31:11was a reality,
31:13that this was a reality,
31:15that this entire
31:18bloodbath
31:19was a reality.
31:21And we walked
31:22over the bodies
31:25and I walked straight
31:26just forward
31:28and there was
31:28a policeman there
31:29and I said,
31:31what do I do?
31:32And he said,
31:33run home.
31:35We need a 20K.
31:37Among the first responders
31:38treating the wounded
31:39are Bondi lifeguards,
31:41including veteran
31:41Daniel McLaughlin
31:43and his team members,
31:44Michael and Mario.
31:46There's another one.
31:46They're up four.
31:47They're up four.
31:49First thing I see
31:50is Michael
31:51just attending
31:52to young officers
31:54being shot
31:54in the face,
31:55stomach.
31:57Horrific.
31:58Horrific injuries
31:59on people.
32:03Some of the little
32:04things will stick
32:05with you
32:05and one of them
32:05for me
32:06was having to
32:06remove the defib
32:07off a patient
32:08that was deceased
32:09in front of their family
32:10to put on another person
32:12and taking that off
32:13was...
32:13I knew in that moment
32:15that was a hard thing
32:16for me to do
32:17and they just wanted help
32:19but I had to take that off
32:20to put on someone else
32:21to try and save them.
32:22Let's go on, brother.
32:25You come.
32:27Volunteer lifesavers
32:28have tried desperately
32:29to save Shana Gutnick's
32:30father, Reuven Morrison,
32:32who confronted
32:33the older gunman.
32:34Reuven has multiple
32:36gunshot wounds.
32:38Thank God
32:39the Sydney lifeguards
32:41had run in
32:41incredible heroes
32:43putting their own lives
32:44at risk to help others.
32:46They were doing CPR,
32:48giving him precious
32:49moments of life.
32:50Through this time
32:51he's still responding.
32:52He's responding his name.
32:54Another who showed
32:55great courage
32:56is Alex Kleitman
32:57who moved to shield
32:59his wife Larissa
33:00from the gunfire.
33:02Alerted to the carnage
33:03at Bondi,
33:04their daughter Sabina
33:05rings her mother.
33:07She says,
33:09you no longer have a father.
33:10He'd just been shot.
33:12He was dead
33:14almost immediately.
33:15My mum sucked in blood
33:17standing next to him.
33:20I was screaming
33:22for so long
33:24I had to put water
33:25on my face
33:26to stop screaming.
33:30Also among those killed
33:31is event co-organiser
33:33and respected
33:34Jewish community leader
33:35Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
33:38It's a void
33:38that can never be filled.
33:42That's...
33:45What he did
33:46for the community
33:49a hundred people
33:50couldn't do.
33:53And the youngest victim
33:54ten-year-old Matilda.
33:58She had such a kind heart
34:01and she was
34:02always, you know,
34:03giving
34:03and always
34:05always,
34:09always,
34:09always happy.
34:11She was always happy.
34:13Just remember her
34:15as
34:17smiling,
34:17happy,
34:18ten-year-old
34:19Aussie girl.
34:20The New South Wales
34:22ambulance
34:22have been coming
34:23and going
34:24as they triage
34:25and get the people
34:26the care that they need.
34:28Virginia Wynne-Markham
34:29has seen the news
34:30on TV
34:30and has been
34:31desperately trying
34:32to contact her husband,
34:34event photographer
34:34Peter Marr,
34:35for hours.
34:37After two phone calls
34:39with police,
34:39I got a call
34:40at 1.04 in the morning
34:41on Monday
34:43and it was from
34:44the community liaison officer
34:45and she said,
34:47um,
34:47is that Virginia?
34:48And I said,
34:49yes.
34:49And she said,
34:50are you at home?
34:50I said,
34:51yes.
34:51She said,
34:52I'm on my way.
34:53So the liaison officer
34:54comes here and...
34:55Yep.
34:56And it's the worst news
34:57you could ever...
34:58Yeah.
34:59She said,
34:59well,
34:59I can confirm
35:01that Peter was
35:02shot
35:04and she gestured
35:06to this region
35:07and she said
35:08that he passed on scene.
35:10That, um,
35:12I think words
35:12to the effect
35:13of when first responders
35:15reached him,
35:16they knew
35:17there was nothing
35:17they could do.
35:24For the lifeguards
35:26who rushed up
35:26from the beach
35:27to be among
35:27the first to help,
35:28the scene in Archer Park
35:30still haunts them.
35:35I just want
35:36to really acknowledge
35:37that
35:37the families
35:39of the victims
35:40and the friends
35:41just need to know
35:42that there was people
35:43tirelessly working
35:45to save their lives.
35:49How are you bearing up?
35:51Not great.
35:52It's
35:53terrific.
35:55Like,
35:55just,
35:56you try and do your best
35:57to
35:58be a leader of people
35:59in a horrific time.
36:15The worst terror attack
36:17in Australian history
36:18has left
36:1915 innocent people
36:21dead
36:21and 40 injured.
36:24This planned
36:26and deliberate horror
36:27has shattered lives
36:28and left a community
36:30struggling with grief.
36:37What has always
36:38been a paradise
36:39and a place
36:40of enjoyment
36:41is now a crime scene
36:43and a site
36:45of national mourning.
36:50Bondi
36:50is a place
36:51where everyone
36:52is welcome.
36:52This violates,
36:54I think,
36:54the very heart
36:55of Bondi.
36:55The Jewish community,
36:57I cannot speak
36:57for how devastated
36:58they are.
37:00The grief,
37:00the fear,
37:01the anger,
37:02it is so deep
37:04right now.
37:04People are saying,
37:05you know,
37:06am I welcome
37:06here at all?
37:07You know,
37:08I met someone today,
37:09eighth generation
37:09Australian,
37:10saying,
37:11I don't know
37:12I can stay here anymore.
37:13This is,
37:13this is the level
37:14of, I think,
37:15trauma that people
37:15are feeling.
37:28The Hanukkah
37:29by the sea event
37:30was organised
37:31by Chabad Bondi.
37:33And 24 hours
37:34after the slaughter,
37:35the community
37:36gathers at the
37:37organisation synagogue
37:38to pray
37:39and to grieve.
37:41But there is also
37:43a pointed message
37:43to be delivered.
37:45Warning what happens
37:47when you let
37:48anti-Semitism
37:49fester.
37:50And in the face
37:52of such tragedy
37:53and in their
37:54honour and merit,
37:56we the community
37:57refuse to be diminished.
37:59We commit ourselves
38:01to honouring
38:02their memory
38:03not only with words
38:05but with action.
38:14community leaders
38:16say levels
38:16of anti-Semitism
38:17have soared
38:18in the past few years.
38:21Alex Rivchen
38:22from the Executive
38:23Council of Australian
38:24Jury
38:24has felt it first hand
38:26with his former home
38:27vandalised
38:28and nearby cars
38:29torched.
38:31And that's why
38:32for two years
38:33we've been raising
38:34the alarm
38:34because we know
38:35where things go.
38:36We see the fixation
38:38that people exhibit.
38:39We see the incitement.
38:41And it always
38:42ends this way.
38:43It's always
38:43ended this way.
38:49Following the
38:49October 7 bloodbath
38:51by Hamas
38:51that left
38:521,200 Israelis
38:53dead
38:54and the subsequent
38:55Gaza war
38:56in which Israel
38:57killed tens of
38:58thousands of
38:58Palestinians,
38:59mostly civilians,
39:01members of the
39:02Jewish community
39:03say anti-Semitism
39:04in Australia
39:05reached unprecedented
39:07levels.
39:09Post-October 7
39:11it became more real,
39:12became more possible.
39:13There was more
39:14visible
39:15anti-Semitism,
39:17anti-Semitism
39:18coming from
39:19new fronts.
39:21There became
39:22a new vector
39:23of
39:25very,
39:26very strong
39:27anti-Israel sentiment
39:28which sometimes
39:30spills over
39:31into
39:32anti-Jewish sentiment,
39:34anti-Semitic sentiment.
39:36That was new.
39:38People were scared
39:39of it.
39:39But I never
39:40thought it would
39:41end in violence.
39:44The government
39:45appointed a special
39:46envoy to combat
39:46anti-Semitism
39:47who came up
39:48with a comprehensive
39:49strategy
39:49which has not
39:50been implemented.
39:51I can't help
39:52but conclude
39:53that had there
39:55been more decisive
39:56firm action
39:57at the beginning,
39:57true leadership
39:58that this
39:59wouldn't have
39:59happened.
40:06At a memorial
40:08a week after
40:09the massacre,
40:10many there
40:11made very clear
40:12their opinion
40:13of the Prime
40:13Minister's
40:14performance
40:14in confronting
40:15anti-Semitism.
40:17The Prime
40:18Minister of
40:18Australia,
40:19Anthony Albanese.
40:25I firmly believe
40:26from my personal
40:27relationship
40:28with the Prime
40:29Minister
40:29and my dealings
40:30with him
40:31that he's a good
40:32and decent
40:32human being.
40:33He abhors
40:34racism,
40:34anti-Semitism.
40:36After the attack
40:36of my old home,
40:37he was one of the
40:38first to call
40:38and I could hear
40:39in his voice
40:40that he was shaken
40:42and he was distressed
40:42by it.
40:43And I know that's
40:44sincere.
40:44I have no doubt
40:44about that.
40:47But we need
40:48a Prime Minister
40:48to lead,
40:49to show leadership,
40:50to go beyond
40:51what's politically
40:52expedient,
40:53what the party room
40:55says,
40:55what this faction
40:56says.
40:57That's what
40:58leadership is.
40:58It's about
40:58transcending that,
40:59going beyond that.
41:00There was
41:02so much
41:03anti-Semitism
41:04that was allowed
41:05to grow unchecked.
41:07There was no
41:08consequences
41:09and that was
41:10a green light
41:11to all the
41:12anti-Semitism
41:13that was underground
41:14to suddenly
41:14come to the
41:15surface.
41:18The Prime
41:19Minister declined
41:20an interview
41:20request from
41:21Four Corners.
41:25For many of
41:26those who were
41:27in Archer Park
41:27that December
41:28day,
41:29there is
41:29disappointment
41:30that the
41:30Prime Minister
41:31had to be
41:31pressured to
41:32call a
41:32Commonwealth
41:33Royal Commission.
41:35I think
41:36when you've
41:36got 15
41:39people,
41:39most of them
41:40Australian,
41:41that have
41:43died,
41:44on Australian
41:44soil,
41:45and you've
41:46got their
41:47blood on
41:48the grass
41:49and the sand
41:50of Bondi
41:50Beach,
41:51to not
41:54immediately
41:55say,
41:57obviously,
41:58this needs
41:59a Royal
42:00Commission,
42:03it's
42:04unthinkable.
42:11five weeks
42:12after the
42:13Bondi
42:13massacre,
42:14the
42:14Federal
42:14Parliament
42:15passed
42:15hate
42:16speech
42:16and
42:16gun
42:17reform
42:17laws.
42:18At a
42:19day of
42:20mourning
42:20that same
42:21week,
42:21the
42:22Prime
42:22Minister
42:22apologised
42:23to the
42:23Jewish
42:23community
42:24for failing
42:25to keep
42:25them
42:25safe.
42:26I am
42:27deeply
42:27and
42:28profoundly
42:28sorry
42:29that we
42:30could not
42:30protect
42:31your loved
42:31ones
42:32from this
42:33evil.
42:35The
42:36New South
42:36Wales
42:37government
42:37has moved
42:38to crack
42:38down on
42:38protests
42:39by giving
42:40police more
42:40power to
42:41ban street
42:41demonstrations
42:42for up to
42:43three months.
42:45In a move
42:46that has been
42:47condemned by
42:48civil libertarians,
42:49the Premier
42:50also wants
42:51some chants
42:52and statements
42:52banned.
42:56I'd like
42:56to see
42:56globalised
42:57the
42:57Intifada
42:58banned.
42:59I mean,
42:59this is
43:00globalising
43:00a violent
43:01resistance.
43:02So not
43:03Gaza,
43:04the West
43:04Bank,
43:04Israel,
43:05the Middle
43:05East,
43:06but here
43:07in Australia.
43:08And ultimately,
43:09didn't we just
43:09see what
43:10globalised
43:10the
43:11Intifada
43:11means?
43:12How much
43:12of a fine
43:13line is it
43:13though?
43:14I mean,
43:15I'll be
43:15honest with
43:15you,
43:16we don't
43:16have the
43:16same
43:17free speech
43:18rules that
43:18they have
43:19in the
43:19United
43:19States.
43:20We
43:20don't.
43:20They're
43:21different
43:21here.
43:22And
43:23criminalising
43:23it so
43:24that we
43:24can protect
43:25not just
43:25individuals
43:26who have
43:27a fear
43:27of walking
43:28down the
43:29street and
43:29being racially
43:30vilified,
43:31but also a
43:31recognition that
43:32we've got people
43:33from around the
43:33world,
43:34from different
43:34races,
43:34different religions,
43:35we come to
43:36Australia,
43:36we live side
43:37by side,
43:38we don't just
43:38tolerate one
43:38another,
43:39we try and
43:40draw out the
43:40best of each
43:41other's cultures
43:42and ideas
43:42and identities
43:43and make it
43:44a homogenous
43:44Australian one.
43:45Well,
43:46that does
43:46require guard
43:47rails.
43:59My dad
43:59was killed
44:01for who
44:02he was.
44:04So,
44:05yes,
44:05he survived
44:06the Nazis,
44:07he survived
44:07the Soviets,
44:08he survived
44:09all sorts
44:09of hate.
44:10He didn't
44:10survive that
44:11type of hate.
44:24In the face
44:25of hate,
44:25thousands have
44:26gathered at
44:27Bondi Beach
44:27in a show of
44:28unity and in
44:29support of the
44:30Jewish community.
44:33But the horror
44:34of that day
44:35remains raw
44:35for those who
44:36witnessed it,
44:37like Bondi
44:38local and
44:39cameraman Nick
44:40Castellaro.
44:42The beach
44:43helps,
44:43the water
44:44helps,
44:45you know,
44:45it's a bit
44:45of a healer.
44:47It's just sad,
44:48mate,
44:48as I say,
44:49it's just sad
44:49for Bondi
44:50but sad
44:50for our
44:51country,
44:51mate.
44:52That's what I
44:53think.
45:00Shana
45:00Goodnick's
45:01parents met
45:02at Bondi
45:02Beach and
45:04it's where
45:05her father
45:05Reuven died,
45:06defending the
45:07lives of
45:07others.
45:10For us,
45:11it's a place
45:13that's at
45:15the same time
45:16filled with
45:16Jewish blood
45:17but an
45:19iconic Sydney
45:19landmark
45:20where so
45:22many heroes
45:22rose up on
45:24that day,
45:24gave their
45:25lives up for
45:26others,
45:26ran through
45:28the shooting
45:28to protect,
45:29to save,
45:30and to help.
45:31So at one
45:32hand we have
45:33the absolute
45:33massacre that
45:34occurred there
45:35but we have
45:35so many stories
45:36of light and
45:37heroism coming
45:38forward.
45:40And for the
45:41professional
45:42lifeguards and
45:43volunteer
45:43lifesavers who
45:44work at
45:44Bondi and
45:45who rushed
45:46in to help
45:46that day,
45:47a simple
45:48message to
45:48the families
45:49who lost
45:50loved ones.
45:53I'm pretty
45:54adamant just
45:54to let them
45:55know that no
45:56one was left
45:57alone in their
45:58time of need.
45:59The care and
45:59love I saw
46:00everyone get
46:00given,
46:02holding their
46:02hand all the
46:04way to the
46:04end,
46:05wherever that
46:05was,
46:06where they
46:07were being led
46:07to an ambulance
46:08or they were
46:09in their last
46:10moment,
46:10there was good
46:11caring people
46:12around all the
46:13time working
46:14tirelessly to
46:15save their
46:15lives.
46:16Like,
46:17if that's some
46:18small thing that
46:20the families and
46:20friends can take
46:21out of it,
46:22they weren't
46:22alone.
46:22They were
46:23definitely not
46:23alone.
46:26Others have to
46:27navigate the
46:27terrible events
46:28of that day
46:29with their
46:29children.
46:31Like Jessica
46:32Chapnick-Kahn
46:32who shielded her
46:33daughter Shemi
46:34with her body.
46:37when she
46:38found out
46:38Matilda died
46:39and that
46:40really broke
46:41me.
46:42And the
46:43look on her
46:43face was
46:44like horrifying
46:45to me.
46:46She just,
46:48she looked so
46:49hurt.
46:52And she just
46:53said,
46:53can a child
46:54die?
46:55Can a kid
46:56die?
46:57It's hard
46:58enough for an
46:59adult to even
47:00understand this
47:01whole thing,
47:01let alone a
47:03five-year-old.
47:22the Jewish
47:2330-day
47:24mourning period
47:24known as
47:25Sloshim
47:26is coming to
47:27an end.
47:31Down at
47:32Bondi,
47:33thousands,
47:34including
47:34survivors and
47:35the families
47:36of victims,
47:37have come to
47:37commemorate and
47:38to comfort,
47:39among them
47:40Jessica Chapnick-Kahn.
47:42May we find a
47:44new path with
47:45heart, a new
47:45path of
47:47wisdom,
47:48that children
47:50and people
47:51everywhere may
47:53live and breathe
47:54in peace.
47:56Thank you for
47:57holding us and
47:58for witnessing
47:58this story.
48:08They didn't die
48:09helpless.
48:10Every day during
48:11the 30-day mourning
48:12period, the names
48:13of those who were
48:14killed have been
48:15read out.
48:16Reuven Morrison, 62
48:19years of age.
48:21He saved lives in
48:22those moments and
48:23he took those
48:23bullets.
48:24He was always our
48:25hero growing up as
48:27a little girl, always
48:27so proud of my dad
48:29and now we could
48:30share his heroism
48:31with the whole
48:31world.
48:33Alex Clayton, an
48:3687-year-old Holocaust
48:37survivor.
48:38He came here to
48:39escape that hate and
48:40to escape that
48:41darkness.
48:41He died protecting
48:43my man, being a
48:45proud Jew, lighting
48:47the light, standing
48:53against anti-Semitism,
48:55something which was
48:55very dear to him.
48:58Tanya Trotyak, Adam
49:02Smythe, Boris
49:04Tetleroid, Edith
49:06Brutman, Boris and
49:08Sophia Gorman, Rabbi
49:10Yaakov Levitin, Mark
49:12Apogany, 27-year-old
49:15Dan Elkayam, Tibor
49:18Whiteson, Rabbi
49:20Eli Schlanger, Peter
49:23Maher, 61 years of
49:24age.
49:25He was doing what he
49:27loved among people
49:29who knew him and in
49:31some respects loved
49:32him.
49:33When I found out that
49:35that last photo of
49:36young Matilda with
49:37the bubbles that
49:39Peter had taken
49:40in that, it warmed my
49:41heart that there was
49:42such a joyful photo,
49:43a remembrance of
49:44her.
49:52I want her to be
49:54remembered like a
49:55light that will
49:57overcome darkness.
49:59Nothing will return
50:01her back, but if her
50:03death will do
50:03something good,
50:05something good, it
50:06will mean a lot to me.
50:13Do you have any flowers?
50:16Yes.
50:17Pug-wug-wug.
50:18Hey, oh, stingy.
50:20For Michael and Valentina,
50:22their focus is now on their
50:23six-year-old daughter,
50:24Summer, allowing her to
50:26both grieve and to grow.
50:29It's okay.
50:30Hug you.
50:32We have to worry about her.
50:34We have to make sure that
50:35she's okay and she doesn't
50:36see us always, you know,
50:37in distress.
50:40Sorry, guys.
50:41Can I get a couple of
50:42minutes?
50:42I'm sorry.
50:43Of course.
50:44Of course.
50:44Sorry, I need a bit of fresh
50:46air.
50:46Yeah, yes, of course.
50:47Of course.
50:48Sorry, Michael.
50:48I'm so sorry.
50:49It's okay.
50:57My family went home that
51:00day and they lit candles
51:01and they lit candles
51:03every day of Hanukkah
51:05even when it was hard.
51:07Once a little bright girl
51:10Played by the ocean shore
51:14Under the shade
51:16There is light
51:17and I have been so grateful
51:21and overwhelmed by the
51:23outpouring of love and
51:25support and we refuse to
51:28believe that darkness is
51:30going to overcome light.
51:32We won't let it.
51:34Up in the night sky
51:37Her smile is shining
51:39bright as day
51:40I hope and I'm glad that
51:42this song will be connected
51:43to our Matilda for maybe,
51:47you know, for the future
51:47because this song is connected
51:49to Australia
51:50and I feel like, you know,
51:53like Al Matilda will be
51:54will be remembered
51:57through that song
51:58and connected forever.
52:07You come a waltzing Matilda
52:12with me
52:13And she sang and she laughed
52:16In the dancing flames of power
52:20You come a waltzing Matilda
52:26with me
52:55And she sang and she sang and here
52:58You
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