REGARDING your news item of March 12, “Boy, 15, killed by Israeli troops”, can I encourage you not to describe such as events in terms of being “clashes”, which suggests some kind of balance of forces?

These are not clashes. This is a situation of the fourth most powerful army in the world versus schoolboys exhibiting token resistance to living under military rule as part of an illegal occupation.

One side has tanks, helicopter gun-ships, drones, machine guns, etc while the other is throwing stones defending the country from even more land expropriation by the racist apartheid colonialists that is the state of Israel.

David Myles
Glasgow