JERUSALEM — A masked gunman wearing black shot and killed two people in an attack at on a gay community center in Tel Aviv.

The victims, killed at the scene with a machine gun Saturday night during a support group meeting for gay teens, were ages 26 and 17. Some 15 others were injured, 4 seriously, according to Ha’aretz.

The attacker has not been apprehended. Police, who have swarmed the Tel Aviv area in search of the gunman, are treating the attack as a hate crime.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack at the start of Sunday morning’s weekly cabinet meeting.

“I strongly condemn the shocking murders that were perpetrated last night in Tel Aviv. This morning I spoke with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch. I fully back the police in their search to find the murderer. We will bring him to justice and treat him with the utmost severity of the law,” Netanyahu said.

“I would like to take this opportunity to remind all Israelis that ours is a democratic state. We are a nation of law. Ours is a country built on tolerance and we must respect all people as they are,” the prime minister added.