Ahmed al Ahmed, the Australian immigrant who bravely disarmed a gunman involved in the deadly antisemitic incident on Sunday in Australia, stated he would do it all over again, as his migration lawyer Sam Issa mentioned to The Sydney Morning Herald.
“He has no regrets about what he did. He said he would do it again. However, the pain is beginning to affect him,” Sam Issa observed Monday evening after visiting the injured individual. “He is in a very poor state. He is heavily wounded with bullets. Our hero is currently facing difficulties.”
The 44-year-old wounded Muslim father has daughters who are five and six years old, as reported by the outlet, which stated he arrived in Australia from [origin] in 2006 and later obtained citizenship in 2022.
“Ahmed is a modest person; he is not concerned with media attention; he simply did what he felt obliged to do as a human being on that day,” Issa stated as per the outlet. “He feels grateful for being in Australia. This is his way of expressing gratitude for residing in Australia and being granted citizenship.”
“He has truly appreciated this community, and he felt that as a member of the community, he felt it necessary to act in that manner and contribute.”
At least 15 people lost their lives in the shooting.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stated that the attack “was an act of sheer evil,” “antisemitism,” and “terrorism” that was deliberately aimed at the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah.