I, like Dr Grimmer, may consider those aged between 13 and 17 as children, not adults, but this is not a distinction which the perpetrators of Palestinian terrorism make (The Irish Examiner, August 7).

DR Grimmer (The Irish Examiner, August 7) may consider Palestinians aged 13 to 17 as children, but this is a distinction which Palestinian terrorists make only when compiling statistics on casualties among their own people.

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