A young Brantford couple backpacking through Australia are still trying to process the trauma after being amid a deadly mass shooting that left 15 people dead. Finn Foster and his girlfriend Hayden Lombardi, both 18, spent the day surfing and suntanning at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec. 14.

In another incident on Thursday in Australia, two vehicles were intercepted in southern Sydney in connection with a planned violent act, with New South Wales Police noting that no connection to the Bondi Beach massacre was identified.

The comments were made in an article published on the group’s Telegram channel in reference to the shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

Albanese’s government said it has consistently denounced antisemitism over the last two years. The government passed legislation to criminalize hate speech and in August it expelled the Iranian ambassador after accusing Tehran of directing two antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne.