Ahmed al Ahmed, the Australian immigrant who heroically snatched a gun from one of the gunmen involved in Sunday’s deadly anti-Semitic terror attack in Australia, said he would do it all over again, said his immigration lawyer Sam Issa, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he would do it again. But the pain is starting to take its toll,” Sam Issa noted Monday evening after visiting the injured man. exhaust reported. ‘He’s not doing well at all. It’s full of bullets. Our hero is going through a hard time right now.”
The injured Muslim father, 44, has daughters aged five and six, according to the newspaper, which reported he came to Australia from Syria in 2006 and later received citizenship in 2022.
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New South Wales Prime Minister Chris Minns visits Ahmed Al Ahmed, 43, at a hospital in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2025. (NSW Premier Chris Minns Account/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“Ahmed is a humble man, he is not interested in reporting, he just did what he had to do as a human being that day,” Issa noted, according to the outlet. ‘He gets that gratitude because he is in Australia. This is his way of conveying his gratitude for being in Australia, for being granted citizenship.
“He really valued this community, and he felt that as a member of the community he should act that way and contribute.”
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At least fifteen people were killed in the shooting.
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Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia, during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, December 15, 2025. (Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The attack “was an act of pure evil,” “anti-Semitism” and “terrorism” that “deliberately targeted the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
