Amy Leibovitz

A week prior, I was having a conversation with my mum.

We normally attend the open Hanukkah festivities.

There's one in my local area in the North Shore.

There's also one in Bondi.

It happens every year.

And we were discussing, do we go, do we not go?

And I said to my mum, we shouldn't be going because there's a high risk of terrorism that something could happen.

And

So we actually changed our plans out of fear of what could happen.

And it just felt so frustrating and upsetting that

is the outcome.

At the time I was just on my sofa and I just heard what sounded like fireworks going off and it was multiple, multiple going off.

So I sort of opened the blinds to see what was going on and I just saw an older lady get shot and she was on the floor.

Saw an older guy get shot, very badly injured on the left-hand side and I just saw a bunch of people screaming around towards me.

I didn't know what was going on.

They were just shouting, you know, get cover, get cover.

So I ran to my front door, put the lock on and then ran to my bedroom, put the blinds down and just took cover in my wardrobe.