Hamas are the biggest threat to a two-state solution in Middle East

I must admit that I initially thought Charlie Murphy’s riposte to an objective statistical analysis of Gaza’s Palestinian community was a belated April fool’s joke (Letters, April 2).

Sadly, I quickly realised that it was yet another polemical exercise that made sweeping generalisations without any reference to the data.

To infer as Mr Murphy did from the stark and depressing statistics that they represented “the indomitable spiritof the people of Gaza”, is unfortunately indicative of a complete misinterpretation of quantitative analysis.