JENIN, April 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The resistance leader in Jenin refugee camp, Sheikh Gamal Abu El-Heiga, confirmed that the refugee camp fell Wednesday morning, April 10, in the hands of the Israeli occupation forces which are now publicly executing a large number of Palestinian youth.

Abu El-Heiga told IslamOnline that the occupation forces were now largely in control of the refugee camp after eight days of fierce Palestinian resistance. “The occupation force is currently shooting at the resistance fighters and publicly executing them,” he added.

“They are bombing whatever is remaining from the camp while embarking on a wide scale abduction campaign of the youth, taking them from their families,” Abu El-Heiga said.

Palestinian fighters in the camp, which is home to about 14,000 refugees, stated they would rather die than surrender. Israeli occupation troops were firing mortars into the camp early Wednesday and bulldozers were demolishing homes, Israel Radio reported.

The skirmishes came one day after Palestinian resistance in the Jenin camp delivered the hardest blow yet to the Israelis since their offensive began. Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in a carefully timed double ambush coming in retaliation for the massacres that the Israeli army carried out in Jenin in which at least 200 Palestinians were killed.

Israel announced Wednesday morning the death of the 15th soldier killed in the Jenin camp on Tuesday, April 9. The soldier was killed by a bomb detonated near his patrol, Israel Radio reported. Twelve soldiers were injured in the incident, none seriously.

Informed Palestinian sources told IslamOnline that resistance fighters in Jenin killed more than 35 occupation soldiers and injured one-hundred others during the eight days of intensive Israeli military operations against the refugee camp.

Palestinians in Jenin expressed their fear that the occupation forces will massacre all those besieged inside the camp especially that they had run out of ammunition and were no longer able to resist except by throwing stones at the heavily armored occupation soldiers.

Palestinian sources told IslamOnline about humiliating Israeli acts against the men, women, children and elderly in the camp. “They force the men to strip naked in front of everyone and lie down while threatening to crush them under the wheels of the tanks,” sources added.

One of the resistance fighters in the camp called Abd El-Salam told IslamOnline’s correspondent that Tuesday night was the bloodiest since the start of the Israeli offensive on Jenin. He added that tens of Palestinians fell martyrs and were wounded overnight. He said the exact figures of those massacred was impossible to know since Israel closed off the area.

Abd El-Salam also told IslamOnline that the Israelis were still bulldozing tens of Palestinian houses and concealing any evidence of their crimes and atrocities in the camp. “The camp is almost completely destroyed and will be extinct in no time,” he added.

Palestinian witnesses in Jenin said their dead and injured remain lying in the streets. For its part, the Palestinian leadership said Israel bore "full responsibility" for the escalation in the conflict and accused it of "barbaric murders."

Israeli troops prevented U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and Red Cross workers entering Jenin camp Tuesday, saying only that there was "a situation" inside as new reports emerged of Israeli violence, BBC’s online news service reported.

Peter Hansen, the UNRWA's commissioner general, accused the Israeli occupation army of creating a "hellish battleground" in the midst of the refugees.