"After all the sacrifices the people of this country have made, they’re laughing at us. Pretty unforgivable."

"It suggests that, after a week of saying a party did not take place, they currently have no idea how to approach this story", Ian Dunt said.

"On the day you partied, my mother called me, breathless and feverish. I didn’t visit. On the day you joked, she was admitted to hospital. I didn’t visit. As you celebrated Christmas, she died without family by her side. I promise you, it wasn’t funny."

"No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question," Paul Brand said.

"Came with both a free packet of crayons and a blindfold... make of that what you will."

Israel says the closures are needed to prevent Hamas from expanding its military capabilities, while the Palestinians and rights groups view it as a form of collective punishment.

“Why would the government feel they need more sympathy directed towards them?" the actor said.

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