Military forces commanded by General Ariel Sharon…
January 1972 CE
Military forces commanded by General Ariel Sharon in the Israeli-occupied northeastern Sinai following initial expropriations in 1969, "drove off some ten thousand farmers and Bedouin, bulldozed of dynamited their tents, destroyed their crops and filled in their wells," to prepare the ground for six kibbutzim, nine villages, and the city of Yamit in January 1972.