Australia's prime minister said the suspects in the shooting at the Hanukkah event were “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” They had traveled to the Philippines before the attack, officials said.

Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation.

The suspects are a father, also killed, and his son, in the shooting at a Hanukkah event.

The cousin of a bystander who social media showed tackling and disarming an armed man during Sunday's (December 14) deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach has hailed the man as a hero.

Ahmed al Ahmed — whose actions were caught on a video that has been verified — is being praised as a hero in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Australian history.

While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed ‌as ​a hero after disarming one of the ‌gunmen shooting at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and ​another man who died after physically confronting the attackers are also being remembered for their heroic efforts to save those around ‍them.

Police said 16 people, including one suspect, have been killed after a terrorism incident at the Hanukkah by the Sea event at Australia’s busy Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday evening. “The evil unleashed at Bondi is beyond comprehension,