{"id":24868,"date":"2025-12-17T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24868"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:24:10","slug":"update-on-bondi-hero-who-confronted-gunman-as-lawyer-raises-question-about-his-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24868","title":{"rendered":"Update on Bondi hero who confronted gunman as lawyer raises question about his injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahmed Al-Ahmed, praised for disarming a gunman during the Bondi Beach attack, is recovering in hospital after suffering five gunshot wounds and multiple surgeries. His former migration lawyer, Sam Issa, said the 43-year-old remains in critical condition, with possible nerve damage and no feeling in his arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the severe injuries, Al-Ahmed says he has no regrets and would act the same way again. Footage showed him tackling shooter Sajid Akram and taking away his weapon before being shot by a second attacker. He is being treated at St George Hospital, while public support has surged, with over $1.2 million raised in donations, including a major contribution from Bill Ackman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Al-Ahmed, praised for disarming a gunman during the Bondi Beach attack, is recovering in hospital after suffering five gunshot wounds and multiple surgeries. His former migration&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":604,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24870,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868\/revisions\/24870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}