January 3
Israel says it will begin to pull out of parts of the West Bank, but Palestinian officials condemn the announcement as empty propaganda. Palestinians say Israeli tanks remained stationed with 100 metres of the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah. The move coincides with the return of US special envoy Anthony Zinni.
January 5
Israel is outraged after it discovers a Palestinian ship loaded with 50 tonnes of arms - including anti-tank missiles and Russian-made Katyusha rockets - which Israel claimed had been sent by Iran. Yasser Arafat denies that the shipment was ordered by the Palestinian Authority.
January 9
Hamas gunmen attack Israeli soldiers near the Gaza Strip, apparently ending its temporary ceasefire. Four soldiers are killed and both gunmen are shot dead.January 10
Israeli bulldozers destroy 32 homes in the Rafah refugee camp, the home of the two militants shot dead the day before following their attack on an Israeli army post.
January 15
Israel assassinates Raed al-Karmi, 28, a Palestinian leader in the al-Aqsa Brigades, who it accuses of involvement in 10 murders. The al-Aqsa Brigades take immediate revenge, shooting dead one Israeli near Nablus.
January 17
A gunman belonging to the al-Aqsa Brigades shoots dead six people and wounds 30 others at a Jewish girl's bat mitzvah party in the northern Israeli town of Hadera.
The military wing of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) threaten to assassinate Yasser Arafat and his aides if they do not release PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat, who Mr Arafat had arrested. Israel accuses Mr Saadat of being behind the killing in October of the Israeli tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi.
January 18
In retaliation for the bat mitzvah attack, Israeli jets destroy the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, killing one policeman and injuring 40 more.
January 21
Israeli troops seize the West Bank town of Tulkarm, imposing a curfew and conducting house-to-house searches for Palestinian fugitives. It is the first time since the uprising began that the Israelis have occupied an entire town.
January 22
A Palestinian gunman opens fire at a bus stop in central Jerusalem, killing two women and wounding 14 others. The attack is claimed by the Al-Aqsa Brigades.
January 24
The Israeli army kills a senior Hamas commander, Bakr Hamdan, and two of his associates in a helicopter missile strike on his car. In another incident Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who were trying to infiltrate a settlement in Gaza.
January 24
Someone blows up Elie Hobeika, a Lebanese warlord and a potential key witness in a Belgian war crimes case against the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, outside his house in Beirut.
January 25
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a crowded street in Tel Aviv, wounding at least 25 people. Hours later, Israeli warplanes attack targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
January 27
A 20-year-old woman becomes the first Palestinian female suicide bomber after she blows herself up in a busy Jerusalem shopping street, killing one woman and injuring 100 others.
January 29
Israeli tanks roll into a Palestinian-controlled village close to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, arresting three suspected militants, including one the army claims is a senior member of Islamic Jihad.
February 1
Ariel Sharon tells the Israeli newspaper Maariv that he regrets not having "eliminated" Yasser Arafat 20 years ago when he had the chance during the invasion of Lebanon. But he denies he has any plans to harm Arafat now.
February 4
Five Palestinian guerrillas are killed in Gaza, allegedly in an Israeli assassination.
February 5
Hundreds of angry Palestinians storm a courtroom and shoot dead three men convicted of the murder of Osama Qmeil, a Palestinian security official responsible for killing suspected Palestinian collaborators with Israel.
February 11
Israel attacks Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City in the second day of reprisals for an unprecedented Palestinian missile attack on southern Israel.
February 13
Israeli troops launch the as yet most extensive military operation in the Gaza Strip in 16 months of fighting, a midnight raid on three Palestinian towns and a refugee camp. Jack Straw visits the Middle East, saying that Yasser Arafat must take more responsibility in controlling acts of terrorism against Israel.
February 14
The international court of justice rules that past and present government leaders cannot be tried for war crimes by a foreign state, ending the possibility that a Belgian court can try Ariel Sharon.
February 15
The head of an Israeli commando unit is killed after a wall collapses next to a bulldozed house and Palestinian militants blow up a tank. Israeli jets attack the Jabalya refugee camp in retaliation, killing a policeman.
February 16
Car bomb devastates a shopping centre in a Jewish settlement on the West Bank.
February 18
At least one person is killed in a car bomb attack on an Israeli roadblock in the West Bank near Jerusalem.
February 19
Eight Palestinians killed in missile strikes, bombing raids and gun battles.
February 19-20
Six Israeli soldiers are killed in a commando-style raid by Palestinian guerillas on an Israeli army checkpoint at Ein Ariq, near Ramallah. Reprisal strikes leave 16 Palestinians dead.
Ariel Sharon promises a "different course of action" against the new style raids.
February 22
Israeli troops pull out of positions in the Gaza Strip, but as tensions appear to ease a motorist is shot dead and details emerged of a foiled suicide bombing in the West Bank.
A poll conducted for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Israel's largest Hebrew daily, shows that 61% of Israelis are dissatisfied with Mr Sharon's performance.
February 24
Israel grants Yasser Arafat permission to travel in Ramallah.
February 25
A 15-year-old Palestinian girl wielding a knife is shot dead at an Israeli checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
February 26
Israelis and Palestinians agree to resume peace talks as interest grows in a Saudi peace plan.
George Bush lends cautious support to the plans.
February 27
Europe's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, meets Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to explore the peace initiative.
February 28
The Israeli army storms the Balata refugee camp, the biggest in the West Bank, strafing it from the air, a mountain top and other strategic positions. A simultaneous invasion of the Jenin refugee camp marks the most concerted effort by Ariel Sharon to crush Palestinian militants on their home terrain since the uprising began.
March 2
At the end of the Jewish sabbath, a suicide bomber blows himself up in a crowd of mothers and children in an ultra-orthodox Jerusalem neighbourhood. Nine people are killed, including six children, and an entire family is wiped out.
An Israeli policeman is shot dead in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem.
March 3
Ten Israelis - including seven soldiers - are shot dead by a lone Palestinian sniper. Another Israeli soldier is killed and four others injured in an attack in the Gaza Strip.
March 4
Seventeen Palestinians, including five children, are killed in Ramallah as Israel steps up military pressure. Six Palestinians, including two children, die when a car belonging to a Hamas leader is hit. Fighting in the Jenin and Rafah refugee camps that claims 11 lives.
March 5
Five Israelis and two Palestinians are killed in a series of bloody attacks. A Palestinian man opens fire on a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub; a suicide bomber blows himself up on an Israeli bus; and gunmen ambush Israeli motorists in the West Bank.
Palestinians fire rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot, near Gaza, injuring two children.
March 6
Seven Palestinians are killed as Israel shells the Gaza Strip in one of the most intense assaults on the territory since the current intifada began.
March 7
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a supermarket at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, killing himself and wounding four bystanders. In Jerusalem, two civilians thwarted another bomb attack at a cafe.
March 8
In the deadliest day of fighting since the intifada began 18 months ago, Isreali troops kill 40 Palestinians in an assault on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Earlier, a Palestinian militant had opened fire on a military academy in the Jewish settlement of Atzmona in the Gaza Strip, killing five teenage officer cadets were killed and wounding another 24.
March 10
A Hamas member detonates a suicide bomb full of nails and metal screws in the crowded Moment Cafe in Jerusalem, killing 11 people and wounding more than 50, some seriously. Israel responds by destroying the Palestinian president's headquarters in crowded Gaza City.
March 11
Israeli tanks and troops storm a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, unleashing a ferocious firefight in which 17 Palestinians are killed and more than 50 wounded.
March 12
20,000 Israeli troops invade refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and reoccupy the West Bank town of Ramallah. At least 31 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more ordered out of their homes. Seven Israelis are killed when a Palestinian gunman opens fire on a kibbutz near the border with Lebanon.
The United Nations security council endorses for the first time an independent Palestinian state, and the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, accuses Israel of "illegal occupation" of Palestinian land.
March 13
In Ramallah, Israeli machine gun fire claims the life of a 42-year-old Italian photographer, Raffaele Ciriello, 42. He is the first foreign journalist killed in the 18-month intifada.
March 14
US envoy General Anthony Zinni arrives in Israel in the hopes of restarting the peace process after a week of unprecedented violence.
March 18
The US vice president, Dick Cheney, arrives for talks with Ariel Sharon, and makes a qualified offer to meet later with Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile Mr Sharon makes a qualified offer to lift the travel ban on Mr Arafat.
March 20
A member of Islamic Jihad blows himself up on a crowded bus near a Palestinian village in Galilee, killing seven Israelis.
March 21
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a major shopping area in central Jerusalem, killing himself, two bystanders and wounding at least 42 people. The al-Aqsa Brigades claim responsibility.
March 25
George Bush asks Israel to release Yasser Arafat from his confinement in Ramallah to allow him to attend the Arab League meeting.
March 26
Yasser Arafat announces he will not attend the Arab summit as Ariel Sharon makes new demands, including asking the US to sanction his permanent exile if there are further terrorist attacks while he is in Beirut.
March 27
The Arab League summit opens amid wrangling and walkouts. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan are no-shows, and the Palestinian delegation walks out claiming that the Lebanese hosts are blocking Yasser Arafat from making his speech via a satellite link. Syria also pushes for the breaking of all relations with Israel.
Later in the day a suicide bomber walks into a crowded hotel in Netanya, an Israeli coastal resort, and blows himself up as guests prepare for a meal ushering in Passover. Nineteen people are killed. The military wing of Hamas claims responsibility.
March 28
The Arab League summit comes to a final agreement: it promises Israel peace, security and normal relations in return for a full withdrawal for Arab lands occupied since 1976, the establishment of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital and a "fair solution" for the 3.8 million Palestinian refugees. It is, however, a much tougher deal on Israel than the Crown Prince first proposed.
March 29
Israeli tanks and bulldozers attack Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, the Palestinian leader is confined to the basement and vows that he would rather die than surrender. It is first stage of what the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, says would be a "long and complicated war that knows no borders".
March 30
The US president, George Bush, urges Yasser Arafat - still under siege - to do more to clamp down on terrorism, but urges Israel to remember that a peaceful solution must be found to the crisis. The US also backs a UN security council resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories. In Tel Aviv a sucide bomber strikes, killing himself and wounding more than 20 others. The bodies of Arafat's elite bodies, who appear to have been executed, are carried out of a bank in Ramallah.
March 31
A suicide bomber kills 16 in Haifa, a futher four are injured by a suicide bomber in the Efrat settlement and Israeli tanks thunder into Qalqiliya, on the edges of the West Bank. Ariel Sharon declares Yasser Arafat an "enemy of Israel".
Israel says it will begin to pull out of parts of the West Bank, but Palestinian officials condemn the announcement as empty propaganda. Palestinians say Israeli tanks remained stationed with 100 metres of the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah. The move coincides with the return of US special envoy Anthony Zinni.
January 5
Israel is outraged after it discovers a Palestinian ship loaded with 50 tonnes of arms - including anti-tank missiles and Russian-made Katyusha rockets - which Israel claimed had been sent by Iran. Yasser Arafat denies that the shipment was ordered by the Palestinian Authority.
January 9
Hamas gunmen attack Israeli soldiers near the Gaza Strip, apparently ending its temporary ceasefire. Four soldiers are killed and both gunmen are shot dead.January 10
Israeli bulldozers destroy 32 homes in the Rafah refugee camp, the home of the two militants shot dead the day before following their attack on an Israeli army post.
January 15
Israel assassinates Raed al-Karmi, 28, a Palestinian leader in the al-Aqsa Brigades, who it accuses of involvement in 10 murders. The al-Aqsa Brigades take immediate revenge, shooting dead one Israeli near Nablus.
January 17
A gunman belonging to the al-Aqsa Brigades shoots dead six people and wounds 30 others at a Jewish girl's bat mitzvah party in the northern Israeli town of Hadera.
The military wing of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) threaten to assassinate Yasser Arafat and his aides if they do not release PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat, who Mr Arafat had arrested. Israel accuses Mr Saadat of being behind the killing in October of the Israeli tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi.
January 18
In retaliation for the bat mitzvah attack, Israeli jets destroy the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, killing one policeman and injuring 40 more.
January 21
Israeli troops seize the West Bank town of Tulkarm, imposing a curfew and conducting house-to-house searches for Palestinian fugitives. It is the first time since the uprising began that the Israelis have occupied an entire town.
January 22
A Palestinian gunman opens fire at a bus stop in central Jerusalem, killing two women and wounding 14 others. The attack is claimed by the Al-Aqsa Brigades.
January 24
The Israeli army kills a senior Hamas commander, Bakr Hamdan, and two of his associates in a helicopter missile strike on his car. In another incident Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who were trying to infiltrate a settlement in Gaza.
January 24
Someone blows up Elie Hobeika, a Lebanese warlord and a potential key witness in a Belgian war crimes case against the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, outside his house in Beirut.
January 25
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a crowded street in Tel Aviv, wounding at least 25 people. Hours later, Israeli warplanes attack targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
January 27
A 20-year-old woman becomes the first Palestinian female suicide bomber after she blows herself up in a busy Jerusalem shopping street, killing one woman and injuring 100 others.
January 29
Israeli tanks roll into a Palestinian-controlled village close to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, arresting three suspected militants, including one the army claims is a senior member of Islamic Jihad.
February 1
Ariel Sharon tells the Israeli newspaper Maariv that he regrets not having "eliminated" Yasser Arafat 20 years ago when he had the chance during the invasion of Lebanon. But he denies he has any plans to harm Arafat now.
February 4
Five Palestinian guerrillas are killed in Gaza, allegedly in an Israeli assassination.
February 5
Hundreds of angry Palestinians storm a courtroom and shoot dead three men convicted of the murder of Osama Qmeil, a Palestinian security official responsible for killing suspected Palestinian collaborators with Israel.
February 11
Israel attacks Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City in the second day of reprisals for an unprecedented Palestinian missile attack on southern Israel.
February 13
Israeli troops launch the as yet most extensive military operation in the Gaza Strip in 16 months of fighting, a midnight raid on three Palestinian towns and a refugee camp. Jack Straw visits the Middle East, saying that Yasser Arafat must take more responsibility in controlling acts of terrorism against Israel.
February 14
The international court of justice rules that past and present government leaders cannot be tried for war crimes by a foreign state, ending the possibility that a Belgian court can try Ariel Sharon.
February 15
The head of an Israeli commando unit is killed after a wall collapses next to a bulldozed house and Palestinian militants blow up a tank. Israeli jets attack the Jabalya refugee camp in retaliation, killing a policeman.
February 16
Car bomb devastates a shopping centre in a Jewish settlement on the West Bank.
February 18
At least one person is killed in a car bomb attack on an Israeli roadblock in the West Bank near Jerusalem.
February 19
Eight Palestinians killed in missile strikes, bombing raids and gun battles.
February 19-20
Six Israeli soldiers are killed in a commando-style raid by Palestinian guerillas on an Israeli army checkpoint at Ein Ariq, near Ramallah. Reprisal strikes leave 16 Palestinians dead.
Ariel Sharon promises a "different course of action" against the new style raids.
February 22
Israeli troops pull out of positions in the Gaza Strip, but as tensions appear to ease a motorist is shot dead and details emerged of a foiled suicide bombing in the West Bank.
A poll conducted for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Israel's largest Hebrew daily, shows that 61% of Israelis are dissatisfied with Mr Sharon's performance.
February 24
Israel grants Yasser Arafat permission to travel in Ramallah.
February 25
A 15-year-old Palestinian girl wielding a knife is shot dead at an Israeli checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
February 26
Israelis and Palestinians agree to resume peace talks as interest grows in a Saudi peace plan.
George Bush lends cautious support to the plans.
February 27
Europe's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, meets Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to explore the peace initiative.
February 28
The Israeli army storms the Balata refugee camp, the biggest in the West Bank, strafing it from the air, a mountain top and other strategic positions. A simultaneous invasion of the Jenin refugee camp marks the most concerted effort by Ariel Sharon to crush Palestinian militants on their home terrain since the uprising began.
March 2
At the end of the Jewish sabbath, a suicide bomber blows himself up in a crowd of mothers and children in an ultra-orthodox Jerusalem neighbourhood. Nine people are killed, including six children, and an entire family is wiped out.
An Israeli policeman is shot dead in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem.
March 3
Ten Israelis - including seven soldiers - are shot dead by a lone Palestinian sniper. Another Israeli soldier is killed and four others injured in an attack in the Gaza Strip.
March 4
Seventeen Palestinians, including five children, are killed in Ramallah as Israel steps up military pressure. Six Palestinians, including two children, die when a car belonging to a Hamas leader is hit. Fighting in the Jenin and Rafah refugee camps that claims 11 lives.
March 5
Five Israelis and two Palestinians are killed in a series of bloody attacks. A Palestinian man opens fire on a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub; a suicide bomber blows himself up on an Israeli bus; and gunmen ambush Israeli motorists in the West Bank.
Palestinians fire rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot, near Gaza, injuring two children.
March 6
Seven Palestinians are killed as Israel shells the Gaza Strip in one of the most intense assaults on the territory since the current intifada began.
March 7
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a supermarket at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, killing himself and wounding four bystanders. In Jerusalem, two civilians thwarted another bomb attack at a cafe.
March 8
In the deadliest day of fighting since the intifada began 18 months ago, Isreali troops kill 40 Palestinians in an assault on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Earlier, a Palestinian militant had opened fire on a military academy in the Jewish settlement of Atzmona in the Gaza Strip, killing five teenage officer cadets were killed and wounding another 24.
March 10
A Hamas member detonates a suicide bomb full of nails and metal screws in the crowded Moment Cafe in Jerusalem, killing 11 people and wounding more than 50, some seriously. Israel responds by destroying the Palestinian president's headquarters in crowded Gaza City.
March 11
Israeli tanks and troops storm a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, unleashing a ferocious firefight in which 17 Palestinians are killed and more than 50 wounded.
March 12
20,000 Israeli troops invade refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and reoccupy the West Bank town of Ramallah. At least 31 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more ordered out of their homes. Seven Israelis are killed when a Palestinian gunman opens fire on a kibbutz near the border with Lebanon.
The United Nations security council endorses for the first time an independent Palestinian state, and the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, accuses Israel of "illegal occupation" of Palestinian land.
March 13
In Ramallah, Israeli machine gun fire claims the life of a 42-year-old Italian photographer, Raffaele Ciriello, 42. He is the first foreign journalist killed in the 18-month intifada.
March 14
US envoy General Anthony Zinni arrives in Israel in the hopes of restarting the peace process after a week of unprecedented violence.
March 18
The US vice president, Dick Cheney, arrives for talks with Ariel Sharon, and makes a qualified offer to meet later with Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile Mr Sharon makes a qualified offer to lift the travel ban on Mr Arafat.
March 20
A member of Islamic Jihad blows himself up on a crowded bus near a Palestinian village in Galilee, killing seven Israelis.
March 21
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a major shopping area in central Jerusalem, killing himself, two bystanders and wounding at least 42 people. The al-Aqsa Brigades claim responsibility.
March 25
George Bush asks Israel to release Yasser Arafat from his confinement in Ramallah to allow him to attend the Arab League meeting.
March 26
Yasser Arafat announces he will not attend the Arab summit as Ariel Sharon makes new demands, including asking the US to sanction his permanent exile if there are further terrorist attacks while he is in Beirut.
March 27
The Arab League summit opens amid wrangling and walkouts. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan are no-shows, and the Palestinian delegation walks out claiming that the Lebanese hosts are blocking Yasser Arafat from making his speech via a satellite link. Syria also pushes for the breaking of all relations with Israel.
Later in the day a suicide bomber walks into a crowded hotel in Netanya, an Israeli coastal resort, and blows himself up as guests prepare for a meal ushering in Passover. Nineteen people are killed. The military wing of Hamas claims responsibility.
March 28
The Arab League summit comes to a final agreement: it promises Israel peace, security and normal relations in return for a full withdrawal for Arab lands occupied since 1976, the establishment of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital and a "fair solution" for the 3.8 million Palestinian refugees. It is, however, a much tougher deal on Israel than the Crown Prince first proposed.
March 29
Israeli tanks and bulldozers attack Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, the Palestinian leader is confined to the basement and vows that he would rather die than surrender. It is first stage of what the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, says would be a "long and complicated war that knows no borders".
March 30
The US president, George Bush, urges Yasser Arafat - still under siege - to do more to clamp down on terrorism, but urges Israel to remember that a peaceful solution must be found to the crisis. The US also backs a UN security council resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories. In Tel Aviv a sucide bomber strikes, killing himself and wounding more than 20 others. The bodies of Arafat's elite bodies, who appear to have been executed, are carried out of a bank in Ramallah.
March 31
A suicide bomber kills 16 in Haifa, a futher four are injured by a suicide bomber in the Efrat settlement and Israeli tanks thunder into Qalqiliya, on the edges of the West Bank. Ariel Sharon declares Yasser Arafat an "enemy of Israel".