{"id":8159,"date":"2025-12-14T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:08:16","slug":"bondi-beach-hero-revealed-as-muslim-fruit-seller-ahmed-al-ahmed-shot-twice-after-disarming-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8159","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach hero revealed as Muslim fruit seller Ahmed al Ahmed shot twice after disarming shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, was named by family as the man who wrestled one of the gunmen to the ground before aiming it back at the attacker forcing him to retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Mr al Ahmed, a Muslim father-of-two with no gun experience, was passing Bondi Beach when he heard the shooting erupt.<\/p>\n<p>The fruit seller was shot twice by the other suspect after he snuck up on one of the gunmen and managed to disarm him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019s in hospital and we don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s going on inside,\u2019 his cousin Mustafa told 7News.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image wp-image-25471537\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SEI_277949564-9109.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=530\" alt=\"Ahmed El Ahmed\" width=\"530\" height=\"785\" \/><\/div><figcaption>Ahmed El Ahmed was shot after disarming one of the gunmen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018We do hope he will be fine. He\u2019s a hero 100 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He was shot once in his arm and again in his hand. I\u2019m still waiting to see him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In a video after the attack, Ahmed appears to be receiving first aid. He is coherent in the video and can be seen speaking to responders as they tend to his wounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales premier Christopher John Minns said in a press conference the disarming was \u2018the most unbelievable scene I\u2019ve ever seen\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That man is a genuine hero, and I\u2019ve got no doubt that there are many, many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A man walking up to a gunman who had fired on the community and single-handedly disarming him, putting his own life at risk to save the lives of countless other people,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Eli Schlanger and Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman are among the twelve dead in the Bondi terror massacre, with at least 29 taken to hospital with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli citizen is thought to have been killed with children among the injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, was named by family as the man who wrestled one of the gunmen to the ground before aiming it back at the attacker forcing him to retreat. Mr al Ahmed,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}