July 1 Hamas vows to redouble its suicide bombing attacks after a raid by Israeli special forces kills its most senior bomb-maker, Muhaned Taher.
July 2
Yasser Arafat sacks two of his most senior security chiefs - Jibril Rajoub, effectively head of security in the West Bank, and Ghazi Jibali, the police chief in Gaza.
July 4
But the two men defy the order, creating turmoil in the Palestinian authority. They later agree to stand down but the episode has cast doubt on the Palestinan leader's ability to deliver reform.
Meanwhile a senior Israeli official claims the Jewish state has killed or arrested all the suspected West Bank militants on its most wanted list, leaving its soldiers searching for lower level activists moving up the ranks.
July 7
Britain is bypassing its own embargo on selling arms to Israel by trading through the US, it is reported.
Jibril Rajoub describes Yasser Arafat's decision to replace him with an outsider as "a big mistake" but promises that there would be no revolt against the ruling.
July 9
Ariel Sharon's government moves to silence a Palestinian peace activist who endeared himself to Israelis late last year when he suggested Palestinians give up the right of return for refugees as part of a peace deal. Dr Sari Nusseibeh, a philosopher and negotiator at the Madrid peace conference, has boxes of files, student and personnel records and research carted away from al-Quds University in east Jerusalem.
July 12
Marwan Barghouti, the imprisoned West Bank leader credited with being a key organiser of the intifada, is to be expelled to Lebanon under a deal taking shape between Israel and Hizbullah guerrillas, Israel Army Radio reports.
July 14
During an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis, described by Palestinians as a bungled assassination attempt, a Palestinian on trial for collaboration is taken from court and shot dead.
July 16
Eight Israeli settlers on the West Bank are shot dead as gunmen ambush a bus. It is the first fatal attack on Israelis since June 20 when the Israeli army swept into the West Bank and occupied seven Palestinian towns.
July 17
Israel bombs what the army says was an arms factory in Gaza and Israeli soldiers kill one of the militants suspected of the West Bank bus ambush. A soldier is also killed during the gun battle.
Later, two Palestinian suicide bombers blow themselves up outside an all-night grocery kiosk in Tel Aviv, killing three bystanders in what police say is a "multiple terror attack". The bombs are detonated in a district of cheap cafes, cinemas showing porn films and lodgings for thousands of Israel's foreign guest workers brought in to replace Palestinian workers from the occupied territories.
July 19
The Israeli army rounds up 21 relatives of suspected militants for exile and blows up their homes.
July 22
An Israeli jet attack on a residential area of Gaza City kills the Hamas military leader, Salah Shehadeh, and 14 other people, including nine children.
July 23
Ariel Sharon hails the raid as a great success as international condemnation mounts. It emerges that Palestinian militants linked to Tanzim and Fatah were on the brink of an announcing an end to attacks on Israeli civilians. Hamas promises to retaliate.
July 25
Palestinian guerrillas kill a Jewish settler and wound another in what they described as the "first and simple answer" to the Gaza bombing.
July 26
Four settlers are killed in two separate attacks on a road near Hebron.
July 28
Settlers on the West Bank kill a 14-year-old girl on their return from a soldier's funeral in Hebron.
July 30
A suicide bomber detonates himself outside a falafel stand in Jerusalem, killing two. Hamas claims responsibility, saying the attack is in retaliation for the assssination of its military leader.
July 31
The Hebrew University in east Jerusalem - attended by Arabs, Jews and international students - is attacked by a Hamas bomber, killing two Israelis and five US nationals. Investigators believe the bomb was left in a bag in the cafeteria.
Hours earlier the Israeli government ordered the first expulsion of a relative of a Palestinian militant from the West Bank since it came under Israeli occupation in 1967.
August 1
A UN report into the fighting at the Jenin refugee camp in April disputes Palestinian claims of an Israeli massacre but accuses both sides of endangering civilian lives and criticises the Israeli army for the widespread destruction of property.
August 2
Israeli troops enter the old city of Nablus to capture the men responsible for the university bombing. At least three Palestinians are reported killed in the fighting.
August 4
A wave of violent attacks leaves at least 15 people dead. In one of the incidents nine people (including three soldiers, two women from the Philippines and an Arab Israeli woman) are killed by a suicide bomber on a bus in northern Israel. In another a gunman kills a security guard and a Palestinian bystander in Jerusalem before being shot dead himself.
The Israeli army bulldozes the home of families of nine suicide bombers. Hamas stops releasing its bombers' names to prevent retaliation.
August 5
Israel announces a total ban on Palestinian travel in much of the West Bank and seals off a chunk of the Gaza Strip with tanks. A car explodes in northern Israel, killing one person and injuring another. The dead man is a reported to be a Palestinian militant hitching a lift to the site of his intended attack.
August 6
Israel's interior minister, Eli Yishai, reveals plans to strip two Israeli Arabs of their citizenship. The punishment has never before been used in Israel's 54-year history.
August 7
Seven Palestinians are killed in Israeli incursions into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
August 9
Musa Rajoub, a Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel, is dragged from a jail cell by a mob, shot, and strung up by his left foot from an electricity pylon in the centre of Hebron.
August 14
Marwan Barghouti, 43, credited with being a key organiser of the intifada, attends a 20-minute hearing in a small Tel Aviv courtroom to hear a seven-count indictment filed against him. He tells the court Israel will only have security when it withdraws from Palestinian lands.
Israeli forces fire rockets into a house in the West Bank, killing a disabled Hamas military leader, Nasr Jarrar, as well as another Palestinian.
August 20
Palestinian police are back on the streets of Bethlehem after the withdrawal of Israeli troops brings to an end a two-month reoccupation of the West Bank town.
August 23
A Palestinian woman, Ikhlas Khouli, becomes the first woman to be shot dead by Palestinian militants for alleged collaboration with the Israelis.
August 25
An Israeli cabinet minister, Danny Naveh, admits that plans for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza had been "frozen". The ceasefire plan, called "Gaza-Bethlehem first", is undermined by violence. At least four Palestinians die in clashes with the Israeli army this weekend.
August 28
Talks on the further withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territory are shelved after violence erupted in the Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks reportedly shelled the coastal village of Sheikh Ijleen, near Gaza City, killing four Palestinians, including a mother and her two children, witnesses said.
September 3
Israel's supreme court rules in favour of sending relatives suspected of helping a Palestinian, alleged to have planned a bombing, into internal exile - despite protests from human rights groups that the action contravenes international law.
September 5
The opening day of the trial of Marwan Barghouti quickly turns into a trial of Israel versus the Palestinians. Squeezed within the walls of court 602, it is the occupation versus terrorism, as the Israeli prosecution alleges, or the occupation versus the resistance, as Mr Barghouti claims.
Meanwhile the Palestinians end a month-long lull with a series of attacks that left two Israeli soldiers dead and an attempted car bomb that the Israelis said contained so much explosive it could have altered the course of Middle East history.
September 9
Yasser Arafat uses his first appearance before the Palestinian parliament in 18 months to condemn "every act of terror against Israeli civilians", although he stops short of calling for a specific ban on suicide bombings.
September 10
Fatah announces a unilateral halt to attacks on Israeli civilians and says it will try to prevent other militant Palestinian groups carrying out suicide bombings and other such attacks.
September 11
Yasser Arafat suffers one of the biggest humiliations of his up-and-down career when his government was forced to resign to avoid a parliamentary vote of confidence.
September 18
A suicide bomber breaks a six-week lull in the attacks, killing himself and a policeman near an Arab town in northern Israel. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claims responsibility.
In New York, Israeli negotiators reject a Palestinian proposal to suspend attacks on civilians in Israel as the first stage in a complete ceasefire. The quartet of international negotiators - the US, UN, EU and Russia - however back a "roadmap" to peace that will see a provisional Palestinian state in 2003 ahead of a final settlement in 2005.
September 19
A suicide bomber detonates his explosives on a bus at lunchtime in a crowded Tel Aviv street killing seven people including himself. Israeli troops attack Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and demand the handing over of 20 men on its wanted list who are believed to be inside.
September 20
Israeli tanks and bulldozers smash their way through Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah, destroying half of the last building still under his control.
September 21
Israeli troops haul down the Palestinian flag from the Palestinian headquarters.
September 24
The UN security council passes a resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Palestinian towns and end the destruction of Palestinian property. Tony Blair calls for an international conference to revive the peace process.
September 26
Hamas threatens retaliation "everywhere" in Israel for an airstrike in Gaza that it says killed two of its members. The raid's target, Mohammed Deif, is described by Israel as one of the group's main bombmakers. He survives the attack.
September 27
Ariel Sharon says he will ignore American objections and respond with force against Iraq if any Israeli civilians are killed or weapons of mass destruction are used against the Jewish state.
September 29
Israel pulls its tanks and soldiers out of Yasser Arafat's West Bank headquarters under intense American pressure to end the 11-day siege that has undermined US attempt to win Arab and other international support for an attack on Iraq.
October 1
Israeli troops reoccupy three buildings near Yasser Arafat's headquarters just two days after ending a siege of his compound.
Tony Blair says Britain will push for "final status" negotiations on Israel and the Palestinian territories to be revived by the end of the year.
October 2
It emerges that the former head of Israel's intelligence service held secret talks with a senior Palestinian official six weeks earlier in an attempt to curb the violence. Ephraim Halevy, the former Mossad chief who heads the country's national security council, met a "dissident" Palestinian official to lay the ground for peace talks that bypass Yasser Arafat.
October 3
Fatah's West Bank leader, Marwan Barghouti, is ushered out of court in Tel Aviv after refusing to remain quiet during his murder trial.
October 7
Israeli troops make an early morning raid on the Gaza Strip. Ten Palestinians die as an Israeli helicopter fires into a crowd.
October 10
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing an elderly woman and injuring 16 others. More deaths are avoided by a bus driver and a paramedic, who pin the suicide bomber down as he slips while attempting to board the bus.
October 14
A Guardian report says Palestinians across the region are accusing Jewish settlers of using security concerns as a cover to plunder their olives and force them from the land.
Israeli security forces used a boobytrapped public telephone outside a hospital to blow up a Palestinian member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Bethlehem.
October 16
The Israeli government backs away from a confrontation with hundreds of angry settlers and abandons an attempt to close an illegal outpost in the West Bank.
October 17
Israeli tanks fire on a Gaza refugee camp killing seven Palestinians hours after the Israeli government welcomed details fleshing out President George Bush's "road map" to peace.
October 21
Suicide bombers detonate a car packed with explosives next to a crowded rush hour bus. At least 14 people are killed and 59 others badly wounded after the bus burst into flames seconds later. The military wing of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
October 24
President Bush's Middle East envoy, William Burns, tells Palestinian leaders that they have no hope of renewing negotiations for an independent state until they take decisive action to stop "terrorism and violence". He also warns Ariel Sharon that his government should swiftly end the suffering and humiliation of the Palestinians.
October 25
Hundreds of Israeli troops seize control of Jenin in response to the bus suicide attack in the biggest military assualt since April.
October 27
A suicide bomber kills himself and three Israeli soldiers at an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
October 29
Yasser Arafat appoints a new cabinet.
October 30
The Israel coalition government collapses as Binyamin Ben-Eliezer leads his minister's out of Ariel Sharon's cabinet.
October 31
The prime minister begins the frantic task of patching together rightwing support for his fragile Likud administration by appointing a former army chief, Shaul Mofaz, who has led campaigns against Palestinian militants and favours ousting Yasser Arafat.
November 5 2002
Ariel Sharon accepts he cannot regain a parliamentary majority after Labour ministers quit his government of national unity. He calls for elections within 90 days.
Sharon calls early election
November 9 2002
Israeli army kills the head of Islamic Jihad in Jenin, Iyad Sawalhe, who Israelis held responsible for two of the worst suicide bombings this year.
November 10 2002
A Palestinian gunman opens fire on a kibbutz near the West Bank, killing five Israelis, including a mother and her two young sons.
November 12 2002
The Israeli army raids the West Bank town of Tulkarem and lays siege to Nablus. A two-year-old Palestinian child is shot dead.
Israel goes in after killings on kibbutz
November 15 2002
Palestinian gunmen kill 12 Israelis after opening fire on a group of settlers making a weekly pilgrimage to a holy site in Hebron.
November 18 2002
A 23-year-old Israeli Arab, Tawfiq Fukra, allegedly attempts to hijack an El Al flight to Istanbul. No one is hurt.
November 19 2002
Five Palestinians are killed as Israeli soldiers sweep through the West Bank town of Tulkarem, in an apparent attempt to capture Tarek Zaghal, a leader of the al-Aqsa Brigades militia.
November 21 2002
A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 11 people - half of them children - on a crowded Jerusalem bus.
Children killed in suicide attack on bus
November 22 2002
A British United Nations official and an 11-year-old Palestinian boy die after Israeli soldiers storm a Jenin refugee camp.
British UN official shot dead in Jenin
November 28 2002
Nine Kenyans and three Israelis die in a suicide bomb attack on an Israeli-owned hotel near Mombasa, Kenya. Terrorists make an almost simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet taking off from Mombasa.
Three Palestinians open fire on Likud headquarters during the party's leadership election. Six Israelis die in the attack.
'Our hand will reach those who are responsible' - Israel
Six dead in attack on Likud party HQ
November 29 2002
Ariel Sharon wins the Likud leadership contest.
December 1 2002
Ariel Sharon repudiates an unprecedented statement by Israel's ambassador to the United Nations which accepted that Palestinians should have their own state.
Sharon dismisses 'two states' remark
December 4 2002
The Israeli army kills a 95-year-old Palestinian woman near Ramallah after opening fire at a minibus taxi.
Israelis kill woman, 95, at checkpoint
December 5 2002
Ariel Sharon lays out his terms for Palestinian independence with a vision of an emasculated and demilitarised state built on less than half the land of the occupied territories, and without Yasser Arafat as its leader.
Sharon's deal for Palestine: no extra land, no army, no Arafat
December 6 2002
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip accuse the Israeli army of indiscriminately killing civilians after an army raid on a refugee camp left 10 people dead.
10 killed in raid on refugee camp
December 16 2002
Leading Palestinians are being invited to attend a top-level conference in Britain next month in a bid to boost the Middle East peace process, the prime minister announces.
Blair plan for Arab summit
December 17 2002
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, dismisses as irrelevant Tony Blair's planned Middle East peace conference yesterday less than 24 hours after Downing Street announced it.
Assad calls Blair conference irrelevant
December 22 2002
Yasser Arafat's cabinet calls off next month's election for a Palestinian president and legislature because it says the Israeli military occupation of West Bank cities makes a free ballot impossible.
Arafat calls off Palestinian elections
December 26 2002
The Israeli army kills at least seven Palestinians in a series of "targeted assassinations" in the West Bank.
Israeli army kills seven Palestinians
December 30 2002
The knesset begins proceedings to bar three Arab members and their parties from next month's general election because of their support for the Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation.
Knesset moves to bar Arab members
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