Bondi Beach shooting: Homemade Isis flags found as terror links examined

Australian police are probing Isis links to the Bondi Beach shooting after confirmation flags linked to the terror organisation were found in a car related to the attack. Fifteen people were killed and 40 injured in Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach after Saijd Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, allegedly opened fire on beachgoers attending a Hanukkah event. New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed this afternoon two homemade Isis flags were recovered from the vehicle used by Naveed as police continue to investigate the men’s motivations for the attack. The father and son had travelled to the Philippines in November, a lead Lanyon confirmed police are actively probing. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier visited shooting victim Ahmed El Ahmed, who has become a household name after footage of him tackling and disarming one of the gunmen went viral. ‘A brave country’ In a video shared to the leader’s X today, the Prime Minister shook hands with the 43-year-old as he visited him at St George Hospital where he is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. El Ahmed has been praised as a hero for the widely circulated video showed the Sydney tobacco shop owner creeping up behind Sajid and taking him by surprise as he wrestled his firearm away. “We are a brave country. Ahmed El Ahmed represents the best of our country,” Albanese told reporters outside the hospital. “We will not allow this country to be divided. That is what the terrorists seek. We will unite, we will embrace each other, and we’ll get through this.” Reuven Morrison has been identified by his daughter Sheina Gutnick as the second man in the clip, who can be seen flinging objects at the gunman. She told CBS News her father, who died from his injuries, was a hero who “went down fighting”. “From my sources and understanding, he had jumped up the second the shooting started. He managed to throw bricks at the terrorist.” “If there was one way for him to go on this earth, it would be fighting a terrorist. There was no other way he would be taken from us.” Gutnick also shared her concerns about the safety of Australia’s Jewish community, stating she felt “betrayed” by the Government. “Australia’s not a home for Jews anymore. It can’t be. If we are shot dead while celebrating our religious festival of lights, of pride, of celebrating who we are, and if we can’t do that, Australia is not a house for us anymore. We can’t be here.” On Monday, Albanese told reporters at a Bondi memorial that anti-Semitic sentiments will not be tolerated in Australia. “Today, all Australians wrap our arms around them and say, we stand with you. We will do whatever is necessary to stamp out anti-Semitism. It is a scourge, and we will eradicate it together.”