<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A man with a bloodied face and a bandage wrapped around his head has </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-police-sydney-incident/a09d7058-dfa5-40c5-9735-711a79493e03" rel="" target="" title="described the mass shooting at Bondi Beach"><span>described the mass shooting at Bondi Beach</span></a><span> as "a bloodbath, it was an absolute massacre".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"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," he told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Children, kids at a festival, playing and then all of a sudden it's absolute chaos. There's gunfire, everywhere, people ducking, it was absolute chaos.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-live-updates-latest-news-headlines/5a9bbb14-ef81-45a3-985d-da6b4062460e" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Multiple people feared dead in Bondi Beach shooting</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-police-sydney-incident/a09d7058-dfa5-40c5-9735-711a79493e03" target="_blank"><strong><span>Ten people dead in horrific mass shooting at Bondi Beach</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We didn't know what was happening, where the gunfire was coming from."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The man, who has not been identified, said he had lived in Israel for the last 13 years and had survived the October 7 attacks there in 2023.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-man-who-survived-israel-october-7-injured-in-mass-shooting/a5650f84-76a6-4566-9a11-af21aa8d6ec4" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said he came to Australia only two weeks ago "to work with the Jewish community, to fight antisemitism, to fight this bloodthirsty, ravishing hatred".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We've lived through worse, we're gonna get through this, and we're going to get the bastards who did this," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-heroic-man-disarms-gunman-turns-weapon-on-him/4d5e1253-c12c-4a84-9d42-b92fa175744b" target="_blank"><strong><span>Hero sneaks up on Bondi Beach gunman, wrestles weapon from him</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-what-happened-shooters-victims-everything-we-know/88ccfc15-8a38-49f8-875c-ef82ef57d9b2" target="_blank"><strong><span>What we know about the Bondi Beach shooting</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The man said he saw one of the gunmen during the ordeal as people fell to the ground around him.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said his only concern was for his wife and children, who he said had managed to escape.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I saw at least one gunman … firing randomly and in all directions.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I saw children fall to the floor, I saw elderly, I saw invalids, it was an absolute bloodbath.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"October 7, that's the last time I saw this. I never thought I'd see this in Australia, not in my lifetime, on Bondi Beach of all places, this iconic place."</span></div></div>