![Ahmed al-Ahmad, a Syrian man who disarmed a gunman during a shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, at the St. George Hospital where he is being treated in Sydney, Australia on December 16, 2025. [Governor-General of Australia - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AA-20251216-39999447-39999446-GOVERNORGENERAL_OF_AUSTRALIA_VISITS_SYRIAN_HERO_WHO_TACKLED_ATTACKER_DURING_BEACH_SHOOTING-1-1-1.jpg)
Global hero Ahmed Al Ahmed called for “forgetting everything bad” and embracing humanity in the wake of Bondi beach shooting in Australia, Anadolu reports. “Stand with each other, all human beings,” Ahmed said in a message to people across the world who donated to him some 2.5 million Australian dollars ($1.65 million). “And forget everything bad (in the past).” Ahmed made global headlines and won hearts across the globe for his courage after he pounced on one of the two shooters last Sunday along Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia’s largest city by population and the capital of New South Wales. Fifteen people were killed in the attack, and one of the two shooters was shot dead while the other is critically […]
