Negotiations also began around an air-raid shelter at a beachfront motel a few hundred yards from Yamit where about 10 young men and women, followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League, had threatened to commit suicide if attempts were made to dislodge them. At about the same time that the Cabinet announced in Jerusalem that Israel would go ahead with its final evacuation, assault units rushed in to clear the strongholds in Yamit in which zealous, often fanatical, opponents of the withdrawal had fortified themselves with the intention of resisting to the end. On Sunday, Israel will return to Egypt a wasteland, little different from the desert that its army seized in 1967. Occupied Sinai, April 21 - Amid scenes of hysteria and random violence, Israel today began the evacuation and destruction of this town, founded eight years ago.
