On April 23, 1982, as part of the final stages of the Sinai Evacuation, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) evacuated Israelis from the village of Yamit. Barricading themselves on roofs and threatening to blow themselves up with bombs, residents resisted deportation.Ariel Sharon and Moshed Dayan developed the city in the 1970s, despite outrage about the disruption to the existing Bedouin community, for the sake of establishing a new Israeli metropolis. Politically, the settlement was problematic: not only was it contested across Israel, but its existence aggravated Egypt and has been cited as one of the catalysts of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.By 1979, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had signed the Camp David Accords, and Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt. Seven years after its controversial founding, Yamit was to be handed over to Egypt. By that point, a faction of Israelis, whose popular political opinion opposed the Camp David Accords and the transfer of the Sinai, supported Yamit as an outpost against feared Egyptian aggression. Leading this faction were the Kahanists, a group of far-right Jewish supremacists and extremists. In the lead-up to the evacuation, many traveled to Yamit, where they galvanized the residents who had refused to leave. Three years after the initial Camp David Accords, on April 23, 1982, the IDF finally moved in to evict the remaining residents of Yamit. Riots broke out, and residents stood on the rooftops, throwing debris, rocks, and vegetables at the soldiers below. The Kahanists threatened to commit mass suicides by blowing themselves up. The IDF fired powerful water and foam cannons at protesters, but it wasn’t until the soldiers resorted to firing live ammunition that they were able to clear out the last holdouts. When the Yamiteans were relocated after the evacuation, a large portion of Israel ostracized them. Many Israelis viewed both the incomers and the Kahanists as enemies of peace; others believed the evictees were opportunists who had moved to Yamit in anticipation of the financial compensation they would receive from the government after being evacuated. Decades later, though, little compensation has been issued to the evictees.In the wake of the evacuation, the city was demolished and remains uninhabited today, with little indication of the Jewish presence left. The Bedouins, who were disregarded by the Egyptian government and received little money or resolution for their legal claims, made Yamit's establishment feasible.