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Hollywood stars Gal Gadot, Ashton Kutcher and Rebel Wilson have reacted to the mass shooting during Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia.

 

Two gunmen opened fire during the annual "Chanukah by the Sea" event on Bondi Beach on Sunday, where members of the Jewish community had gathered to light the ceremonial first candle on the menorah. Sixteen people were killed in the shooting, including one of the two suspected gunmen.

 

"My heart is shattered," Gadot wrote on Instagram. "Following the anti-Semitic terror attack in Bondi Beach, Australia, the grief is immense. Fifteen innocent souls – including a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi and a child – were senselessly murdered while celebrating the first night of Chanukah, the Festival of Light."

 

"This darkness deliberately struck at a sacred moment of community and hope. It is easy to feel defeated. We must honor the victims not with silence, but by demanding a world where every life is safe, and by choosing empathy and unity above all else," the “Wonder Woman” actress added.

 

Ashton Kutcher wrote on X, "Antisemitic rhetoric is not abstract—it carries a cost, and my brothers and sisters continue to pay it. May this devastation somehow spark a hidden miracle, one our eyes do not yet have the merit to see."

 

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Australian actress Rebel Wilson shared on her Instagram stories, "Just waking up to the news about what’s happened on Bondi Beach. An absolute tragedy that is the most un-Australian thing to have happen. We shouldn’t have gun violence in Australia, we shouldn’t have antisemitism – it’s not us! Thinking of everyone affected by this devastating violence."

 

Sara Foster wrote: "What did we expect? We have sat back dismissing hate crimes against Jewish people, swastikas on pre schools, college campuses turned into antisemitic indoctrination institutions, the refusal to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’ by American politicians, the acceptance of people who openly chant for the death of Jews(and the west), invited terrorists who have told us they hate us to live amongst us, and shamed the people who have spoken against it."

 

"Well we have had enough. We have had ENOUGH. Praying for the innocent families in Australia isn't enough. WAKING up to what is happening is the only option."