# Silent genocide · Crisis Trends 2025 · Zorraquino > The systematic elimination of populations is normalised under pretexts of self-defence and exceptionality, and their voices are silenced by international complicity. URL: https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/silent-genocide ![Silent genocide: The systematic elimination of populations is normalised under pretexts of self-defence and exceptionality, and their voices are silenced by international complicity.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0w1142l8/production/066cee39e51cc01bc7eff74732c43e77aeb087b1-1175x661.webp/silent-genocide-the-systematic-elimination-of-populations-is-normalised-under.webp?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format&q=85) Trend 10 # Silent genocide 1. [Crisis Trends 2025Home](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025) 2. [Trend 01Climate emergency](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/climate-emergency) 3. 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[Trend 10Silent genocide](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/silent-genocide) Silent genocide The systematic elimination of populations is normalised under pretexts of self-defence and exceptionality, and their voices are silenced by international complicity. Trend axes - Urban siege - Forced displacement - Dehumanization loop - Humanitarian blockade Some figures 57,680 Number of people killed in Gaza as of 9 July 2025, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, of whom 17,121 are children. 1.9 Millions of people displaced since the start of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, 90% of its total population. 3,000 Percentage rise in the price of flour, a staple food, since the start of the war, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). 12,000 Number of children aged between 6 and 59 months diagnosed with acute malnutrition during July in Gaza. ## Collective punishment and international impunity For months, Gaza has become a territory where daily life goes on under a siege as relentless as it is calculated. The images of hospitals reduced to rubble, whole neighbourhoods razed and families searching for water among the ruins are not isolated episodes, but part of a pattern repeated day after day. It is not only the brutality of the bombing, but a strategy that undermines, piece by piece, any possibility of survival with dignity. In this scenario, the destruction of basic infrastructure and the deliberate restriction of essential resources do not look like mistakes of war, but premeditated decisions. Israel has imposed a systematic effort to weaken the population: cutting off water and electricity, blocking fuel and medicine, razing treatment and desalination plants, and blocking food until famine is reached. The result is a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in full view, while the international community largely limits itself to lukewarm statements without real consequences. Collective punishment, prohibited by international law, has been normalised under the discourse of security and self-defence. But behind those words, what persists is the deliberate devastation of a territory and its people. Even critical voices within Israel have warned that this path leads to a dead end, not only moral but also political. Yet the warnings fall on deaf ears, and silence, both external and internal, becomes the best ally of a strategy that, under the rhetoric of war, erodes the very possibility of life in Gaza. ## Cases 01 / 05 ## More on the trend ### References - [‘Nuestro genocidio’, dos ONG israelíes rompen un tabú en Israel al acusar a su país de ese crimen en Gaza](https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-07-28/nuestro-genocidio-la-ong-btselem-rompe-un-tabu-en-israel-al-acusar-a-su-pais-de-ese-crimen-en-gaza.html) - [El gabinete de seguridad de Israel aprueba el plan de Netanyahu para tomar el control de la Ciudad de Gaza](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cgr95lge94ro) - [Genocidio en Gaza](https://www.msf.es/genocidio-gaza#:~:text=Seg%C3%BAn%20el%20Ministerio%20de%20Sanidad,han%20resultado%20heridas%20%28OCHA%29.) - [Informe actualizado de la situación en Gaza](https://unrwa.es/actualidad/noticias/informe-actualizado-de-la-situacion-en-gaza-9/) - ["Los hospitales no pueden alimentar a los pacientes": la alarmante crisis de malnutrición en Gaza deja 33 muertos en 48 horas](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cwykr31zvxyo) - [Casi 12.000 niños sufren desnutrición aguda en Gaza](https://21noticias.com/2025/08/08/casi-12-000-ninos-sufren-desnutricion-aguda-en-gaza/) - [Gaza: Los hospitales están desbordados de heridos y las enfermedades raras empieza a surgir](https://news.un.org/es/story/2025/08/1540304) - [Arroz de la ONU revendido a 10 euros el kilo y comisiones del 50% para obtener efectivo: así se sobrevive en el mercado negro en Gaza](https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2025-08-11/arroz-de-la-onu-revendido-a-10-euros-el-kilo-y-comisiones-del-50-para-obtener-efectivo-asi-se-sobrevive-en-el-mercado-negro-en-gaza.html?autoplay=1) - [Israel admite haber realizado "disparos de advertencia" en la muerte de 60 gazatíes que hacían cola para obtener comida](https://www.20minutos.es/internacional/israel-admite-haber-realizado-disparo-advertencia-muerte-gazaties-hacian-cola-obtener-comida-5732980/) - [Oxfam Intermón denuncia que Israel utiliza el agua como arma de guerra y reduce en un 94% el suministro en Gaza](https://www.oxfamintermon.org/es/nota-de-prensa/israel-utiliza-agua-como-arma-guerra-gaza#) - [Gaza y la crueldad](https://elpais.com/opinion/2025-08-08/gaza-y-la-crueldad.html%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8https:/elpais.com/opinion/2025-08-06/contra-el-silencio.html) - [Israel mata a 24 gazatíes y deja 300 heridos mientras esperaban la llegada de ayuda](https://www.naiz.eus/eu/info/noticia/20250726/israel-mata-a-24-gazaties-y-deja-300-heridos-mientras-esperaban-la-llegada-de-ayuda) - ["¿A dónde vamos? ¿Nos lanzamos al mar?": la desesperación de los gazatíes ante el plan de Israel de tomar el control de Ciudad de Gaza](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c939k5wzj19o) Pages 96–106 of the report [![UX Trends 2025 cover: a person's face against a red background, streaked with blue and pink light trails.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0w1142l8/production/d69bfcf13cfab733e4e86edd445eeef2fb05e1e2-2400x1350.webp/ux-trends-2025-cover-a-person-s-face-against-a-red-background-streaked-with-blue.webp?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format&q=85)](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/ux-trends-2025) Next report [UX Trends 2025: digital design trends](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/ux-trends-2025)