Israeli transport companies, banks and the arms industry profit from keeping Gaza in a state of siege and humanitarian crisis. The Israeli Merchants of Death boast that their weapons have been field tested on civilians. “The laboratory of the occupied territories is where things can be fine-tuned, they can be tested, they can be retested,” said Neve Gordon, a politics professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. “They can say, ‘Hey this was used by the IDF [Israel’s military], this must be good.’ And that helps the marketing of the goods.”