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.

Police and local media reports said the shooting began while some people were attending a Hanukkah party on the beach. At least 40 people were hospitalized.

The shooting that targeted a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, has caused fear and grief but will not deter Hanukkah events, community leaders say.

Chabad, the international Hasidic Jewish movement that held the Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration, often bears the brunt of antisemitic attacks. That's because in the Jewish world, it is boldly public facing.

Israel's ambassador to Australia has called for greater protection of Jewish people in Australia as dozens of people lined up on Tuesday at Sydney's Bondi Beach to pay tribute to the 15 victims and those wounded in the weekend's Hanukkah festival shootings.

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the shooting on Bondi Beach a terrorist attack targeting a Hanukkah celebration. One suspect was killed and another was in custody, investigators said.

New videos emerged of the horror on Australia’s Bondi beach, as two gunmen unleashed what police described as a terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration. Sara James reports.