Israeli authorities have launched their own parallel investigation into the mass shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left at least 12 people dead and several others injured, probing whether hostile groups like Hezbollah or Hamas may have played a role in the attack, sources told CNN-News18 .

Officials are probing links to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist organisation with a global jihadist footprint and a history of targeting Jewish and Western interests beyond South Asia. Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, including the assault on the Chabad House, which specifically targeted Jewish civilians.

Israeli intelligence officials are also probing whether the Jewish community i

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