A heroic shopkeeper tackled and disarmed one of the terrorists who opened fire on a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration in Australia Sunday.
Video captured the moment that good Samaritan Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, wearing a white shirt, sneaked up behind the shotgun-wielding gunman and wrestled the weapon away from him.
Ahmed, who owns a local fruit stall, then points the weapon at the terrorist, who falls to the ground before scampering away.
He was shot twice in the arm by the second terrorist during his heroic actions, and was taken to a hospital for surgery, according to a relative.
“He’s in [the] hospital and we don’t know exactly what’s going on inside. We do hope he will be fine. He’s a hero, 100 percent,” his cousin, named only as Mustafa, told Australian outlet 7News.
Later video showed him bloodied but conscious, being treated at the scene for his injuries
Ahmed’s actions are all the more extraordinary given the fact that he allegedly had no experience with weapons before Sunday’s shooting, according to his family.Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Ahmed’s actions at his Sunday cabinet meeting.
“We saw the actions of a brave man… a brave Muslim, and I salute him for stopping one of the terrorists from killing innocent Jews,” he said, as reported by the Times of Israel.
