On March 24th, 2004, 15 year old Hussam Abdu was apprehended at an Israeli border checkpoint with live explosives strapped around his waist. Instead of detonating the bomb, out of fear of death and love for his family, Hussam voluntarily surrendered and is now serving time in an Israeli prison for attempted murder.

Since the start of the second Palestinian Intifada, an alarming number of suicide bombers have been children aged eighteen or younger.

To explore this troubling phenomenon, filmmakers Brooke Goldstein and Alistair Leyland risked their lives and traveled to the Palestinian towns of Jenin, Ramallah, Tulkarem and Nablus, seeking out and meeting with leaders of terrorist organizations responsible for recruiting children for suicide attacks.

Through a series of first hand and thought provoking interviews, "The Making of a Martyr" brings its audience into a part of Palestinian culture previously ignored by uncovering those who are facilitating, teaching and paying children to take their own lives as human bombs.

"Suicidal violence must be absolutely condemned. Nothing excuses it. I commend you for your choice, through your camera through your work we have come to see something about the Palestinian situation that we didn’t know."

Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies at Columbia University