The tobacconist who risked everything to stop the carnage has received a bedside visit as new footage of the tackle emerges.

The Bondi hero who risked his life to crash tackle a killer gunman has been praised by NSW Premier Chris Minns as a “real-life hero” at a hospital bed meeting.

As he recovers from surgery after being shot twice, Ahmed Fatih Al-Ahmed had a visit from the premier on Monday.

“Ahmed is a real-life hero,” Mr Minns said.

“Last night, his incredible bravery no doubt saved countless lives when he disarmed a terrorist at enormous personal risk.

“It was an honour to spend time with him just now and to pass on the thanks of people across NSW.

“There is no doubt that more lives would have been lost if not for Ahmed’s selfless courage.

“Thank you, Ahmed.”

On Monday, new video footage emerged of the moment hero Ahmed Fatih Al-Ahmed risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi gunmen.

The unarmed tobacconist who attacked the gunman is a Syrian refugee and Muslim who had to fight to secure Australian residency.

The video captures him, wearing a white T-shirt, crash-tackling the armed terrorist on the grass, who is left crawling around on his hands and knees.

The gunman can be seen wearing a black top and white pants.

The father and son terror duo had marched onto the street with hunting rifles and started shooting at 6:42pm.

That was when Ahmed Fatih Al-Ahmed announced to his cousin he was prepared to die to stop them.

It was just after 7pm on Sunday night.

Al-Ahmed and his cousin had been on their way to grab a coffee.

But the alleged terrorist cell had taken up positions on the pedestrian bridge, targeting the gunfire directly at children and families at the Jewish festival at the beach.

Holding a hunting rifle, Sajid Akram, 50, then left the footbridge as his son, Naveed Akram, 24, kept shooting.

Bystander Al-Ahmed had noticed something important in the split second before deciding to take action.

According to his mother, he believed the shooter had run out of ammunition.

Video captures what happens next

Ahmed Fatih Al-Ahmed, 42, a father of two young daughters, crouches behind a vehicle.

“Please see my family and tell them that I went down to save people’s lives,” he had told his cousin Jozay Alkanj.

Suddenly, he stands up and rushes towards the gunman before leaping onto him and wrestling the gun from his hands.

Whether the gunman had run out of ammunition or not, somehow in the moments that followed, the hero bystander is shot twice in his upper arm and hand.

“He was hit,” Malakeh Hasan Al Ahmed, Mr Al Ahmed’s mother, told reporters.

“We pray that God saves him.”

The video shows the 50-year-old gunman fall to the ground before Al-Ahmed points the gun at him as the gunman backs away before returning to his son’s shooting position on the bridge.

Al-Ahmed carefully places the gun against a tree and puts his hand in the air to reassure police and bystanders that he’s not the gunman.

“He’s a hero, absolutely,” his cousin later told reporters.

“Because maybe he can lose his life to save other people. I hope everyone in Australia wish everything is good for Ahmed to get back to his family.”

Speaking to the ABC, Mr Al Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Fateh Al Ahmed, revealed that their son moved to Australia in 2006.

“When he saw people lying on the ground and the blood everywhere, immediately his conscience and his soul compelled him to pounce on one of the terrorists and rid him of his weapon,” his father said.

A GoFundMe set up for Mr al-Ahmed had raised a million dollars.

“No one expects to be a hero, but when the moment came, he was,” the post read.

“Any contribution, big or small, is a powerful way to say thank you.”

The tobacconist has undergone his first round of surgery at St George Hospital in Kogarah and js in pain but recovering.

“I saw him last night, and he was in good spirits,” his father said. “He said he thanks God that he was able to do this, to help innocent people and to save people from these monsters, these killers.”