Brooke Goldstein, Director/Producer, Making of a Martyr

"Making this film we realized our worst nightmares were true. Palestinian children are being taught and incited on a massive scale to take their own lives as human bombs. It wasn't just the terrorist organizations who were recruiting, but the whole of the Palestinian society, including their state sponsored media and schools, is active in this new form of infanticide... " More

Hajii Idris, mother of the first female Palestinian suicide bomber

"She did nothing bad, by God! My mind tells me that she did nothing wrong. It is something that raises the head..."

Alistair Leyland, Director/Producer, Making of a Martyr

"In the days that followed I grew confused, as each report was conflicted. Was he 14 or 16? Was he mentally challenged or simply brain-washed? Was this an example of how desperate the Palestinian society had reached, or was this an Israeli-orchestrated event?" More

Brooke Goldstein, Director/Producer, Making of a Martyr

"Filming Martyr, we also sat with Zachariah Zubeidi, Israel's most wanted man in the West Bank and the leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades in Jenin. At that time, Al-Aqsa had been directly linked to the recruitment of sixteen child suicide bombers. We spoke with Zachariah in the company of four of his heavily armed friends and a preschool child who sat beside him, fingering his loaded weapon during the interview, switching the safety latch on and off. Zachariah claimed that children came to him so eager to become suicide bombers, that if he 'didn't give them a bomb they would use a knife instead.'" More from The Making of a Martyr Blog

Amar Awad Al-Tawawi, student, Islamic Jihad Summer Academy

"Those who go throw stones say 'let's go and die. Death takes place just once in everyone's lifetime.'"