OCCUPIED PALESTINE, May 6 (IslamOnline) - Palestinian resistance movements have vowed revenge for the Jenin massacres, after Israeli demands eliminated a UN fact-finding mission to the ruined West Bank refugee camp.

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas described the UN’s decision to scrap a fact-finding mission to Jenin as “a biased decision to cover up Israeli crimes.”

“The United Nations is biased to Israel and covers up the Israeli crimes - a stand which has shocked and infuriated the people of Jenin and all world Muslims,” Hamas spokesman in Jenin, Sheikh Khalid El-Haj, told IslamOnline.

“Had this massacre been directed against Jews, would the world have kept silent? Would the UN have called off the fact-finding team?”

El-Haj confirmed Palestinian resistance is still strong despite the great number of martyrs lost in the Israeli incursions. “Resistance will rebuild itself despite the murder of 14 Hamas members, 3 Jihad members and 6 Al-Aqsa Brigades members in the Jenin massacre,” he said.

“For every action, there’s a reaction,” added El-Haj, emphasizing that the people of Jenin shall never forgive the Israeli occupation army for this massacre.

The people in Jenin are still in high spirits, he said, adding that all the people in the refugee camp are determined to resume jihad and resistance.

He called for backing the intifada as the sole choice left before the Palestinian people, confirming that Hamas refuses to surrender and refuses the abduction of resistance fighters, be they from the Palestinian Authority or any other.

Colonel Nayef Suweitat, a Palestinian official, confirmed that blocking the fact-finding team from reaching facts about what took place in Jenin leaves no doubts there were massacres and war crimes committed in the refugee camp of Jenin.

Such crimes, he added, must be investigated and those responsible must be brought to justice, therefore, the resistance will revenge after a period of reorganization and restructure.

Suweitat sees the disbanding of the team as an American-Israeli conspiracy, explaining that while the bodies of 54 martyrs have been identified, 18 are still missing, in addition to an identified number of people arrested by the Israelis. Final numbers of victims can not be accurate as there are many martyrs still under the rubbles, he added.

International organizations are visiting the camp, in order to collect evidence and documents sufficient to condemn the occupation army, Suweitat said. What is needed is to confront and try to stop the American biased policy, while working in all directions to bring Sharon to justice as a war criminal.

“Disbanding the team is a disgrace for the United Nations and the United States,” said Gamal Al-Shaty, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. “We call upon parliments of the world to create legislations that would enable their members to pressure their governments to recognize those who took part in the Jenin aggression as war criminals that should be tried,” he added.

Kofi Annan should either call upon the international community to declare Israel a country above the law or resign, he added.

Regardless of the horrible aggression they faced, Jenin residents enjoy a high degree of phsychological stability, as they consider what happened to them a form of victory and courage, Al-Shaty said.

Concerning the issue of rebuilding what was destroyed in the camp, Al-Shaty said that a national committee was formed with the mission of reconstructing the Jenin camp. Different subcommittees emerged from the national committee to tackle various areas, such as documentation, finance, public relations & media, health, and emergency commitees, he added.

Another national committee was formed, according to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s orders, to investigate Israel’s crimes in the Palestinian territories, Al-Shaty said. He added that the camp is receiving aid from the town of Jenin, as well as other Palestinian towns and Arab Israelis living in the occupied territories, in addition to several Arab and international institutions.

Meanwhile, the people of Jenin camp, who fought an eight day battle against the Israeli army, before the latter invaded and destroyed the camp, have started to regain their balance and search for their loved ones.