Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two from Syria, was seen in a heart-stopping video as he crept up and tackled one of the father-son terrorists who killed 15 people Sunday night at a Hanukkah celebration at the popular beach just outside of Sydney, Australia.

Just before rushing in, the hero predicted he would pay the ultimate price for his bravery, a cousin, Jozay Alkanj, told the Sydney Morning Herald.

“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” the cousin said.

El Ahmed was hit at least five times, and could even lose an arm, according to Sam Issa, the immigration lawyer who helped get him citizenship in 2022, six years after he had moved Down Under.

“He’s not well at all. He’s riddled with bullets,” Issa told the Sydney outlet after visiting him in the hospital Monday. “Our hero is struggling at the moment.”

His heroism remains even as “the pain has started to take a toll on him,” the lawyer stressed.

“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again,” Issa said.

Still, “He’s a lot worse than expected,” the lawyer said of his “humble” client and friend. “He has lost a lot of blood.”

More than 25,000 people have raised the equivalent of just over $1 million for Ahmed on GoFundMe — with the biggest single donation from US billionaire Bill Ackman, who gave the equivalent of nearly $66,500.

“No one expects to be a hero, but when the moment came, he was,” the fundraiser’s organizers wrote.

The fruit stand owner was photographed with his entire left arm bandaged as he was visited by New South Wales Premier Chris Minns at St George Hospital in Sydney on Monday.

“Ahmed is a real-life hero,” Minn said. “His incredible bravery no doubt saved countless lives when he disarmed a terrorist at enormous personal risk.”

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed, also spoke of his pride at his son preventing more bloodshed.

“My son is a hero,” Mohamed told CNN. “He had the impulse to save people… I am so proud of my son because he is a hero to all of Australia.”  

Ahmed had been living in Australia since 2006, where he is raising two daughters, ages three and six, his parents told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The local hero had just welcomed his parents to Sydney a few months ago after the refugees arrived from Syria.

Alkanj, the cousin, said that he and Ahmed walked by the Hanukkah celebration and were offered food just moments before gunfire erupted.

“We needed a coffee,’ Alkanj said. “It was then just ten minutes before this happened like that. It was very crazy, we went behind the cars, we were seeing that people were shooting very near to us.”

Dramatic video shows Ahmed creep up behind the shotgun-wielding gunman and wrestle the weapon away from him.

He points the weapon at the terrorist, who falls to the ground, and appears to consider shooting him before the gunman scampers away. Ahmed was shot twice in the arm by the second terrorist during his heroic act.

The father and son terrorists killed 15 people in the horror that lasted more than 10 minutes.

The 50-year-old father, who was killed, arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa, authorities said, and was an Australian resident when he died. Officials wouldn’t confirm what country he had migrated from.

His 24-year-old Australian-born son, who was shot and wounded, is being treated at a hospital.

With Post wires