Gal Gadot shattered as stars condemn deadly Bondi Beach terror attack at Hanukkah celebration
Hollywood stars, including Gal Gadot, Ashton Kutcher and Rebel Wilson, reacted to the mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration Sunday in Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen descended upon the annual “Chanukah by the Sea” event on Bondi Beach Dec.14, where members of the Jewish community gathered to light the ceremonial first candle on the menorah. Sixteen people were killed in the shooting, including one of the two suspected gunmen, officials with the New South Wales Police Force (NSWPF) said.
The second alleged shooter is in critical condition.“My heart is shattered,” Gadot wrote on Instagram.“Following the anti-Semitic terror attack in Bondi Beach, Australia, the grief is immense.
Fifteen innocent souls – including a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi and a child – were senselessly murdered while celebrating the first night of Chanukah, the Festival of Light.”Gadot continued, “This darkness deliberately struck at a sacred moment of community and hope.It is easy to feel defeated.
But let us be clear: our strength is not in despair, but in the light we fiercely choose to create in this terrible void.“We must honor the victims not with silence, but by demanding a world where every life is safe, and by choosing empathy and unity above all else.”“Send light into the darkness,” Gadot urged.“Let’s make sure love is the loudest voice.
I will light my Chanukah candle tonight in their honor and for a world of light.Only light.”Ashton Kutcher wrote on X, “Antisemitic rhetoric is not abstract—it carries a cost, and my brothers and sisters continue to pay it.
May this devastation somehow spark a hidden miracle, one our eyes do not yet have the merit to see.”Australian actress Rebel Wilson shared on her Instagram stories, “Just waking up to the news about what’s happened on Bondi Beach.An absolute tragedy that is the most un-Australian thing to have happen.
We shouldn’t have gun violence in Australia, we shouldn’t have antisemitis...