Suicide Bombers: Dignity, Despair, and the Need for Hope

AN INTERVIEW WITH EYAD EL SARRAJ  

Eyad El Sarraj, a psychiatrist, is the founder and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) in Gaza, whose clinics have treated, without payment, one in ten residents in the Strip. He is also secretary-general of the Independent Palestinian Commission for Citizens' Rights and the recipient of the Physicians for Human Rights Award in 1997 and the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights in 1998. He was interviewed by Linda Butler of JPS in Washington, D.C., on 2 May 2002.