From Paris to Tel Aviv: World Shows Solidarity With Orlando in Wake of Shooting

— -- Cities around the world are embracing Orlando in the wake of the shooting that killed 49 people and injured 53 others at a gay nightclub early Sunday morning.

Mourners and members of the gay community held the peace rainbow flag during a spontaneous vigil near downtown Paris yesterday to remember those slain and wounded.

Candles were lit near signs saying "Proud" and "Deuil," which in French means "mourning."

One woman held a poster showing a ribbon with a rainbow and an American flag.

"To Orlando, we have love," it read.

Remi Perrenoud, 30, said the news hit him particularly hard because, like the victims, he had been out partying at a gay club Saturday night, The Associated Press reported.

The Orlando shooting comes months after seven coordinated terror attacks in Paris last November killed at least 130 people.

Tel Aviv's city hall was illuminated in rainbow colors in support of the LGBT community. The building was also lit up in red, white and blue to show solidarity as a nation. Last week, a shooting in a Tel Aviv market left four people dead. The attack took place across the street from Israeli military headquarters.

"Orlando is thousands of miles from Israel, but the tragedy there has deeply saddened me," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted Sunday. "We Israelis feel your pain as if it were our own."

The mayor of Brussels, Yvan Mayeur, also sent condolences via Twitter. An attack in Belgium three months ago left 31 dead and injured 270.

Today, a vigil was held among thousands in the heart of London’s gay village to show solidarity with the victims in Orlando. I addition, every bar stopped serving at 2 p.m.

The shooting in Orlando is the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.

One World Trade Center in New York City was lit up in rainbow colors Sunday night to honor the victims of the shooting.