The Times of Israel reports: “The mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was ‘a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,’ Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.

The suspects were a father and son, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, authorities have said. The older man was shot dead while his son was seriously injured and in the hospital as of Tuesday. Authorities have called the shooting an antisemitic terrorist attack.

A news conference by political and law enforcement leaders on Tuesday was the first time officials confirmed their beliefs about the suspects’ ideologies. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the remarks were based on evidence obtained, including ‘the presence of Islamic State flags in the vehicle that has been seized.’

‘The ideology that has been around for more than a decade that led to this ideology of hate, and in this case, a preparedness to engage in mass murder,’ he said…”