A bystander who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass shooting at Bondi Beach has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, whose refugee parents had just arrived from Syria, according to Australian officials and media.

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.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that the terror attack on Jewish people at Bondi Beach was "motivated by ISIS ideology."

By Christine Chen and Scott Murdoch SYDNEY, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Bondi synagogue for the funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger on Wednesday, a few blocks away from the beach where he was gunned down,

The Boston Bruins held a moment of silence Tuesday night to honor the lives lost over the weekend in two shootings, one at Brown University in Rhode Island and one at Bondi Beach.

The suspected gunmen who attacked a Jewish gathering on Bondi Beach were of Indian heritage and inspired by ISIS, officials say.

Australian officials say the Bondi Beach gunmen carried bombs, ISIS flags and had recently traveled to the Philippines, confirming the massacre was ISIS-inspired.

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 the shooting, which injured at least 40 people, was a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community. A gunman was killed.