Roadmap timeline

25 May: Israeli government endorses "steps" in Mideast roadmap by a 12-7 vote.

Sharon refuses to attend Sharm El-Sheikh Summit on 3 June if it includes representatives from Europe and the United Nations. (Ha'aretz.com)

26 May: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomes the Israeli government's adoption of the roadmap and underscores the Quartet's commitment to helping both sides achieve the plan's vision of two states within three years.

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) kill two Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). IOF fire at a convoy of Swiss, British, Greek, Austrian, Swedish diplomats as it leaves Beit Hanoun. Israeli bulldozers demolish a Palestinian home in East Jerusalem, claiming it was built without a permit. (Palestinechronicle.com)

Phase I of roadmap stipulates that Israel "takes no actions undermining trust, including deportations, attacks on civilians; confiscation and/or demolition of Palestinian homes and property, as a punitive measure or to facilitate Israeli constructions; destruction of Palestinian institutions and infrastructure; and other measures specified in the Tenet Work Plan".

27 May: UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Terje Roed-Larsen, says the roadmap is a more radical and far-reaching document than any previous peace plan in the Middle East.

In Jenin, a Palestinian boy dies of wounds he sustained earlier and IOF wound a teenager in the head. IOF bulldozers demolish home of a Fatah activist killed in Hebron last month. (Palestinechronicle.com)

IOF at Rafah Crossing deny entry to Gudrun Bertinussen, the resident representative of Norwegian People's Aid to the Gaza Strip. (Miftah.org)

28 May: Israel demands that 14 amendments be made to roadmap before it agrees to implementation. The demands include a Palestinian waiver on the right of return, the dismantling of Hamas and other armed groups, the barring of any discussion on the fate of Israeli settlements or Jerusalem until final status talks, and acceptance that Israel will control borders and other aspects of a future Palestinian state. (The Guardian)

Al-Haq Palestinian human rights group denies Israeli allegations that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) "provide shelter for Palestinian terrorists". The Israeli accusation, made by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, is seen as a prelude to a crackdown on Palestinian human rights activists. (Miftah.org)

IOF continue to impose a tight curfew on Tulkarem and its refugee camp for the sixth day. IOP invade five West Bank towns and impose tight curfews. IOF wound three children during invasion of Beit Fourik near Nablus. Another child suffers serious skull fracture after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers in Hebron. IOF shell neighbourhoods near Khan Younis, injuring five people and damaging at least one home. (Palestinechronicle.com)

Phase I of roadmap states that Israel and the Palestinians "implement in full all recommendations of the Bertini report to improve humanitarian conditions, lifting curfews and easing restriction on movement of persons and goods, and allowing full, safe, unfettered access of international and humanitarian personnel".

29 May: Sharon and Abu Mazen meet in Jerusalem to discuss the roadmap. Though no tangible progress on security-related issues is reported, the two agree to issue a "joint statement" at the 4 June Aqaba Summit. (News wires)

IOF assassinate two Palestinians in Jenin and Ramallah and kill another Palestinian in Khan Younis. IOF shoot Palestinian teenager in Tulkarm and detain at least 40 in various parts of the OPT. IOF bulldozers demolish five homes in Za'reb, near Rafah. (Palestinechronicle.com)

Israeli housing minister prepares a project to build 12,000 new housing units in West Bank and Gaza Strip settlements. The move came hours after Sharon's government adopted the roadmap. (Yediot Aharonot)

Phase I of roadmap states that Israel "immediately dismantles settlement outposts erected since March 2001" and consistent with the Mitchell Report, "freezes all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements)".

30 May: Hamas official Abdel-Aziz Rantisi dismisses Sharon- Abbas meeting as "a denial of the rights of the Palestinian people". Rantisi tells AFP that Hamas would only stop its operations if Israel halts its aggression on the Palestinian people.

Sharon's office announces plans to release from Israeli jails Ahmed Jbarra Abu Sukkar, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, and Taysir Khaled, a member of the PLO Executive Committee. In return, Sharon demands that Abbas dismantle "terror organisations", confiscate "illegal weapons" and end "incitement".

A poll published in the Hebrew daily Ma'ariv shows that 57 per cent of Israelis support a Palestinian state, while 62 per cent favour ending Israel's occupation of OPT. (Palestinechronicle.com)

31 May: Palestinian officials say US has accepted a plan aimed at convincing armed resistance groups to cease attacks against Israeli targets instead of taking extreme measures in dealing with them.

IOF kill one Palestinian in the village of Jabeh south of Jenin. Two Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip die of wounds they sustained earlier. IOF bulldozers demolish a house in Tal Zaghreb, south of Rafah. (Al-Jazeera.net)

1 June: IOF announce plans to ease restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, saying 25,000 Palestinian labourers from the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be allowed to enter Israel. Arafat Adviser Nabil Abu Rudaina refutes Israeli claims, saying that Israel has allowed only 4,500 Gaza labourers over the age of 28 to enter Israel. (Al-Jazeera.net)

Israel rejects US suggestion that Sharon declare at 4 June Aqaba Summit his aspirations for an "end to the occupation". Israel has also objected to a US suggestion that Sharon announce the evacuation of illegal settlement outposts. (Ha'aretz.com)

IOF kill an armed Palestinian in central Gaza. A Palestinian boy is critically wounded in the back and another critically wounded in the head after IOF fire at a group of youths in Beit Hanoun, injuring three. IOF bulldozers demolish a post of Palestinian security forces at the entrance of Beit Lahia and a PA customs office in Beit Hanoun, near Erez checkpoint in northern Gaza. (Al-Jazeera.net)

2 June: Palestinian Authority health minister, Kamal Sharafi, announces that the number of Palestinian children killed by the IOF since the outbreak of the Intifada has reached 571. Sharafi says the IOF killed 21 children in the past month, and 107 children since the beginning of 2003. (Al-Ayyam Arabic daily)

IOF kill Palestinian police officer at police station between Beit Layia and Beit Hanoun. IOF declare Ramallah a closed military area; clamp a curfew on entire city and start arresting Palestinians. (Al-Jazeera.net)

3 June: First roadmap summit is held in Sharm El-Sheikh. The summit brings together Egyptian President Mubarak, US President Bush, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Bahrain's King Hamad and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.

In his speech at the 4 June Aqaba Summit, Abbas was expected to declare that the "armed Intifada must come to an end, and we will turn to peaceful measures". The draft of the statement further states that "we will invest all our efforts, while using all the means at our disposal, to alter the Intifada's military nature, and we will succeed." (Ha'aretz.com)

Phase I of the roadmap states that the Palestinians declare "an unequivocal end to violence and terrorism and undertake visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt, and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere".

IOF begin releasing 100 Palestinian prisoners, most of whom were serving the last days of their detention. (Al-Jazeera.net) Nearly 3,351 Palestinian political prisoners are still being held in Israeli jails, including 1,088 held under administrative detention. As of 14 May, 245 minors remain in Israeli jails. (B'Tselem.org)