Police said around 1,000 people had attended the Jewish celebration, which was held in a small park off the beach.

Australian officials said the shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration had been carried out by a father and son. More than three dozen people were hospitalized, including a surviving gunman.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says there were only two police officers on duty at the Sydney Hanukkah event where two terrorists killed 15 people and injured dozens.

A bystander, identified by 7NEWS Australia as Ahmed al Ahmed, seen disarming a gunman at Sydney's Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah event is being heralded as a hero.

Sydney residents have laid flowers and lit candles in a massive outpouring of support as the community mourns people who were massacred by two gunmen in a terror attack Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach.

Australia has agreed a string of measures to toughen national firearms laws, a day after gunmen killed 15 people in an attack on a Jewish festival in Sydney. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his cabinet and state leaders had agreed to accelerate the creation of a national firearms registry and would provide A$100mn ($66mn) to the states and territories.

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.