<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Bondi gunmen allegedly threw several shrapnel-filled bombs into a Jewish crowd celebrating Hanukkah in a failed attempt to claim more lives in their minutes-long, antisemitic massacre.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police allegations about the Islamic-State-inspired shooters' flawed bombs, training in a regional area, arsenal of weaponry left behind and reconnaissance to the massacre site in the days before the December 14 attack were released by a court today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Surviving gunman Naveed Akram, 24, faces 59 charges including committing a terrorist act and 15 counts of murder.</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>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-shooting-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-legislation-changes-in-wake-of-terror-attack/880bef65-efe9-4f42-93ad-fab56a862ebb" rel="" target="" title="New laws to target hate speech, 'brainwashing' of children"><strong><span>New laws to target hate speech, 'brainwashing' of children</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He and his deceased father, Sajid Akram, 50, are accused of carrying out Australia's worst mass shooting since 1996 by targeting the Jewish festival of lights at Bondi Beach.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Images tendered by police in Naveed's case allegedly show the Akrams at a short-term rental home they used as a staging post for their attack.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>CCTV footage shows the men carrying long and bulky items wrapped in blankets and loading them into the younger man's 24-year-old silver Hyundai Elantra in the early hours of December 14.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-shooting-naveed-and-sajid-akram-court-documents/1c0d681a-3978-4d17-8e53-fa19f8421d28" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Under the blankets were two single-barrel shotguns, a Beretta rifle, five homemade bombs and two Islamic State flags, police allege.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The men travelled from the suburb of Campsie in Sydney's south-west to Bondi Beach after 5pm.</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-shooting-sydney-flowers-removed/a2ca5f07-eb05-4721-9c91-3cfb24406db3" rel="" target="" title="Flowers cleared from Bondi, a week after attack"><strong><span>Flowers cleared from Bondi, a week after attack</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After parking near a footbridge on Campbell Parade, the men tossed three pipe bombs filled with steel ball bearings and a "tennis ball bomb" into the Hannukah celebration at Archer Park before opening fire.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But none of the pipe bombs detonated, despite preliminary police analysis finding they were "viable". </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No further detail about the tennis ball bomb was provided.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A box-like bomb was found in the boot of the car while two hand-painted Islamic State flags were also found in the car.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Further weaponry and explosive devices were discovered by police in the Campsie rental, including a 3D-printed shotgun speed loader, a firearm scope, two more guns and another suspected bomb.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police allege the men left behind videos that indicated their adherence to religiously motivated violent extremism.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Footage recorded in late October - six to eight weeks before the attack - showed each Akram training with long-arm guns and "moving in a tactical manner" in a countryside location.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police suspect the area was in NSW.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The (younger Akram) is recorded appearing to recite, in Arabic, a passage from the Quran," the facts sheet states.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Following the recitation, both the accused and S.AKRAM speak in English and make a number of statement sregarding their motivation for the 'Bondi attack' and condemning the acts of 'Zionists'.(sic)"</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Further footage captured by security cameras at Bondi Beach appears to show the Akrams scoped out the area about 48 hours before their attack.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There is evidence that the accused and his father ... meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months," the facts sheet says.</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-shooting-nsw-premier-chris-minns-delivers-major-firearm-reforms-in-state/f3c4d334-51a1-41d6-ae9f-1e5d8a500700" rel="" target="" title="NSW gun laws to be 'toughest in country'"><strong><span>NSW gun laws to be 'toughest in country'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As well as releasing the police allegations, Deputy Chief Magistrate Michael Antrum today suppressed the identities of 25 survivors, to protect their privacy and assist their recovery.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The court order allows victim-survivors to choose if and when they go public with their story, and join other survivors such as Arsen Ostrovsky and hero tobacconist Ahmed Al Ahmed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Akram remains in custody and was today transferred from hospital to a NSW prison under police guard.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His case is next due in court in April.</span></div></div>