This document charts how Britain continued to license and facilitate arms exports to Israel, including through the F-35 supply chain, even as courts, UN bodies and major human-rights groups warned of grave breaches and pointed to senior Israeli leaders’ rhetoric as evidence of genocidal intent.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza has created a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe, with half a million people facing starvation, children dying from malnutrition, and aid agencies warning that this policy amounts to the use of famine as a weapon of war.

The Sudan conflict has caused an estimated 61,000 deaths in Khartoum State over 14 months, with widespread starvation, disease, and unrecorded fatalities highlighting a humanitarian crisis overshadowed by global inaction.

In the DSEI the reminder of what weapons can do – shatter families, destroy towns, kill children – was absent. We see its final product in the ruins of Gaza and Homs and Mariupol. But at the moment of sale, there are no children pleading for peace. And this, in the end, is how the arms trade is able to live with itself.