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Sunday, December 14, 2025
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Sunday, December 14, 2025
Hero who disarmed Sydney Hanukkah event terrorist named as passerby Ahmed al Ahmed
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA bystander who tackled and disarmed a gunman during a terror attack on a Hanukkah event in Sydney is named as Ahmed al Ahmed.
Dramatic footage showed the 43-year-old fruit store owner wrestling the weapon from one of the two gunmen.
His cousin tells 7News that the father of two was shot twice.
“He’s in hospital and we don’t know exactly what’s going on inside,” says the man named only as Mustafa. “We do hope he will be fine. He’s a hero 100 percent.”
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the act of bravery as “the pinnacle of Jewish heroism.”
תיעוד דרמטי מסידני: אדם נאבק באחד המחבלים חוטף את הנשק – ויורה@asafroz15 pic.twitter.com/cQi1u1Q4zb
— החדשות – N12 (@N12News) December 14, 2025
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