Australia is just starting to make sense of a deadly attack targeting people at the beach who were celebrating Hanukkah.

There was a feeling of this sort of thing just doesn't happen in Australia, but at the same time, a lot of Jewish Australians said, well, this is our worst nightmares realized.

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This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for coming along today. Australia is in shock

and morning after a mass shooting that claimed at least 15 lives at a Hanukkah celebration

on Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach.

The alleged shooters were a father and son who reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said there's no evidence that the attackers were part of a

terror cell. At this time, we need to wrap our arms around members of the Jewish community

who are going through an extraordinarily difficult period.

Rabbi Gabby Kaltman knew some of the victims.

Here he is speaking to a news channel in Australia.

So many of us have backgrounds of fleeing persecution, pogroms, discrimination, the Holocaust,

and coming to Australia to rebuild a better life. And for this to have happened on the shores

of Bondi Beach is just unfathomable.

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