Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday.

They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black drapes at the Paris airshow last year.

IAI makes the Heron surveillance drone which its chief executive Boaz Levy said played a “pivotal role” in Israel’s latest assault on Gaza.

The Israeli-state owned firm had a two-storey chalet at Farnborough as well as a stand, which was located next to a UK government space exhibition.

One IAI security guard followed Declassified and demanded to see our media passes so he could “report us to the police”.

Facial recognition software indicates that the security guard, who was not displaying his own pass, resembles a man who has worked for Israel’s version of MI5, the Shin Bet.