Gun violence is not confined to any one country or conflict. Just a few weeks ago, a mass shooting at Bondi Beach shattered what was supposed to be a family-friendly Hanukkah celebration. That same weekend, in the United States, a gunman opened fire at Brown University. A few months before that, ten people were shot and killed at a secondary school in Austria.
In the US alone, there were 408 mass shootings in 2025 – more incidents than days in the year. Gun violence, often with mass casualties, has become a global condition—one in which Israel, unfortunately, has a lot of experience.
At Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency medical service, responding to mass-casualty scenes has been part of our reality for generations. Over decades of terror attacks, wars, and large-scale emergencies, one lesson has become painfully clear: the most decisive moments of a mass-casualty event are the minutes immediately after violence erupts.
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