Video appears to show a man tackling and disarming one of the gunmen, as officials say 11 people were killed in an attack "designed to target" Jewish people.

Local media name the older gunman as Sajid Akram, 50, who died at the scene. His son Naveed Akram, 24, is in a critical condition in hospital.

A father and son opened fire on a Jewish festival at Australia's Bondi Beach in a shooting spree that killed 15 people, including a child, authorities said on Monday, denouncing the attack as antisemitic "terrorism".

Australia's prime minister proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

There has been an attack on people on Bondi Beach during an event on Sunday to mark the start of Hanukkah, which is one of the biggest Jewish festivals of the year.

SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The deadly attack on a Jewish festival at a famed Australian beach ‌has ​deepened diplomatic tensions between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his ‌Israeli counterpart, as domestic pressure mounted for his government to respond to antisemitism.

The Australia side watched the events unfurl while at the team hotel in Adelaide, where the third Ashes Test begins on Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a phone call with Australian foreign minister Penny Wong on Monday to "discuss the antisemitic terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach", the US State Department's spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement. The statement also said the US "strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack".

The 43-year-old disarmed one of the gunmen, sustaining injuries while potentially saving lives during the massacre.

President Trump mourned the victims of the tragic shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach in Australia — as well as the killing of three US soldiers in Syria — during a White House Christmas event Sunday.