Roadmap timeline
2 July: Isreali occupation forces (IOF) redeploy from Bethlehem but tighten seige around the city.
IOF issue a military order preventing Palestinians from all building, rebuilding and restoration work in the old city of Hebron.
Bush administration drafts plan for the transfer of several hundred millions of dollars to the PA for the development of Palestinian civilian and security sectors.
Unknown Palestinians throw an explosive device at an IOF patrol in Hebron.
Three settlers are wounded after Palestinians fire mortars at an Israeli settlement in Gaza.
3 July: IOF undercover units assassinate an Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades activist in Qalqilya and critically wound another.
PA security forces arrest four people after a rocket attack in southern Gaza slightly wounds three people.
An Israeli court indicts two IOF soldiers over the March 2003 killing of an elderly Palestinian near Netzarim junction in Gaza.
Over 200 Palestinians and international solidarity activists hold a peaceful protest in Tulkarm at a construction site of an apartheid gate which will cut the town from neighbouring West Bank cities.
4 July: IOF arrest 12 Fatah activists in the West Bank.
Islamic Jihad leaders hold talks with Palestinian PM.
One Palestinian is killed and two are wounded after an explosive device explodes near an Israeli army checkpoint in Gaza.
IOF post near Gaza's border with Egypt comes under anti-tank rocket and grenade attack but no one is injured.
Three Palestinians are wounded in Gaza after a Palestinian opens fire when the PA police try to arrest him for violating the cease-fire agreement.
Four members of the Popular Resistance Committees are detained in connection with an earlier attack on the Kfar Darom settlement.
A Yediot Ahronot survey shows that 73 per cent of Israelis do not consider Israel victorious in the Intifada.
5 July: Arafat orders PA police in Bethlehem to confiscate all stolen Israeli vehicles.
Palestinian PM holds talks with Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza.
IOF detain 30 Palestinians at Nablus checkpoint.
6 July: The Popular Resistance Committees agree to a three-month cease-fire agreement with Israel.
The Israeli cabinet authorises the release of about 350 out of an estimated 7,500 Palestinian prisoners. Most of those to be released have been detained without trial and have only a few months left to serve. Meanwhile, 3,000 Palestinian protesters in Gaza demand the release of Palestinian prisoners.
The US urges IOF to redeploy from additional West Bank areas and urges PA to start uprooting "terror" groups.
Syrian President Bashar Assad and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issue joint statement urging the brokers of the Mideast roadmap to push for Israeli peace talks with Syria and Lebanon.
7 July: 600 Palestinian prisoners in Ashkelon Prison begin hunger strike to protest Israel's decision to release only a small number of prisoners.
IOF arrest six Islamic Jihad activists in Jenin, including the group's West Bank leader Sheikh Bassam Saadi.
Palestinian youth in Tulkarm is critically wounded after IOF open fire at a car he was riding.
Israeli foreign minister and Palestinian information minister meet in Jerusalem to activate committee to stop incitement.
IOF open fire at Palestinian travellers at Rafah crossing after IOF patrol comes under pipebomb attack.
An explosive device explodes close to the fence of the Migdalim settlement in the West Bank but no injuries are reported.
PA security forces detain then releases teenage Palestinian in Gaza who was allegedly planning a suicide bombing in Israel.
8 July: Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a suicide bombing in central Israel that killed one Israel woman.
Palestinian PM calls off a 9 July meeting with his Israeli counterpart.
Israel announces it might decide to free a small number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners in the next round of prisoner releases.
Israeli and Palestinian cabinet members discuss a proposal for the Palestinian PM to visit Israel's parliament to lobby for a large-scale prisoner release.
Compiled by Salonaz Mohamed
