{"id":62484,"date":"2025-12-31T05:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/bondi-beach-shooting-hero-says-he-just-wanted-to-stop-the-assailant-from-killing-more-innocent-people\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:19:32","slug":"bondi-beach-shooting-hero-says-he-just-wanted-to-stop-the-assailant-from-killing-more-innocent-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/bondi-beach-shooting-hero-says-he-just-wanted-to-stop-the-assailant-from-killing-more-innocent-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach shooting hero says he just wanted to stop the assailant from killing more innocent people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bondi-beach-australia-shooting-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed-donations-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ahmed al Ahmed<\/a><\/span>, the man hailed as a hero for tackling one of the gunmen behind an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/australia-bravery-award-heroes-bondi-beach-antisemitic-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">antisemitic attack<\/a><\/span> on Australia&#8217;s Bondi Beach earlier this month, is speaking out in the aftermath of the massacre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bondi-beach-shooting-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed-tells-cbs-news-why-he-did-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">exclusive interview with CBS News<\/a><\/span> that aired Monday on &#8220;CBS Mornings,&#8221; al Ahmed said he &#8220;didn&#8217;t worry about anything&#8221; except for the lives he could potentially save as he sought to disarm the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My target was just to take the gun from him, and to stop him from killing a human being&#8217;s life and not killing innocent people,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;I know I saved lots, but I feel sorry for the lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian Muslim shop owner, has received international praise for disarming one of two gunmen accused of perpetrating the Dec. 14 mass shooting, which was Australia&#8217;s worst since 1996. Surveillance footage showed him leap out from behind a parked car along the beachfront and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/australia-shooting-ahmed-al-ahmed-fruit-shop-owner-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">wrestle one assailant to the ground<\/a><\/span>, successfully disarming him before al Ahmed became wounded himself. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I jumped in his back, hit him. I hold him with my right hand and start saying a word, you know, like to warn him, drop your gun, stop doing what you&#8217;re doing, and it&#8217;s come all in fast,&#8221; al Ahmed said of his struggle to remove the weapon from the gunman&#8217;s grasp. &#8220;And emotionally, I&#8217;m doing something, which is I feel something, a power in my body, my brain &#8230; I don&#8217;t want to see people killed in front of me, I don&#8217;t want to hear his gun, I don&#8217;t want to see people screaming and begging, asking for help, and that&#8217;s my soul asking me to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;Everything in my heart, in my brain, everything, it&#8217;s worked just to manage to save the peoples&#8217; life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at a Hanukkah celebration and intentionally targeted Sydney&#8217;s Jewish community, Australian and U.S. officials have said. 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