Roadmap timeline
16 July: Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath urges Turkey to help persuade Israel to implement the roadmap and contribute to reconstruction projects in the Palestinian territories.
The US directly transfers $20 million to the PA as a show of confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Eight international peace activists held at the Ariel settlement police station begin a hunger strike to protest the abuse of Palestinian prisoners and to demand their own release.
International peace activists from seven countries set up a protest camp in the northern West Bank village of Arrabony near the site of last week's arrest of four international ISM activists.
Israeli PM asks Britain to pressure the PA to arrest Palestinian activists and dismantle their groups as a precondition for progress towards peace.
An Isreali occupation force (IOF) commando unit rescues an Israeli taxi driver who had been held by Palestinians in the West Bank for five days.
The Arab League welcomes the settling of differences between Yasser Arafat and his prime minister and blasts Israeli efforts to further sideline the Palestinian leader.
Britain and Russia resist pressure to sever ties with Arafat.
The chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee says Israel would be shooting itself in the foot if it gave into demands to release Palestinians from its jails.
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon arrives in Norway for quick talks with his Norwegian counterpart.
17 July: The European Commission approves a 100 million euros aid package to support the implementation of the roadmap.
The Tel Aviv District Court judge upholds the deportation orders for eight peace activists from the ISM. The prosecution claims that they are a security threat to Israel but does not present evidence to this effect, and the defence lawyer's request for a one-week stay on the deportations to allow time to file an appeal is refused.
International volunteers visit Jenin refugee camp after at least 12 IOF jeeps and one Armoured Personnel Carrier enter the camp to arrest a 27 year-old teacher.
Ten IOF tanks enter the northern West Bank village of Yamoun, while IOF troops fire at people crossing the checkpoint at the village of Abaa, east of Jenin.
Lawmakers from the Israeli and Palestinian parliaments meet face to face for the first time in more than three years to discuss the peace process.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov criticises Israel's adoption of a resolution denying the occupation of the Palestinian territories and says such a resolution undermines the roadmap.
18 July: Jean Ziegler, UN special expert on the right to food, says Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been "reduced to begging" by the IOF's military action, and accuses Israel of breaching international law by failing to provide much-needed food aid.
Residents of the northern West Bank village of Arrabony and international ISM peace activists disrupt work on the apartheid wall.
Seventeen international activists from Europe, Canada, and the US help Palestinians remove a roadblock outside the village of Berqin.
The IOF demolish the West Bank homes of two Palestinians involved in last week's kidnapping of an Israeli taxi driver.
Israeli intelligence services arrest two Jewish settlers in the West Bank town of Hebron for security violations.
19 July: Members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade beat and briefly hold the governor of the West Bank town of Jenin for his alleged collaboration with Israel and involvement in yesterday's failed attempt to assassinate a Brigade's activist.
1,500 Palestinian children march in Gaza to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners.
The EU stresses its determination to continue discussions with Palestinian President Arafat despite US and Israeli pressure to sever ties with him.
20 July: Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas and his Israeli counterpart hold tense talks in Jerusalem that focus on the release of Palestinian prisoners and the re-deployment of the IOF from Palestinian self-rule areas. No major breakthrough in the talks is reported.
Israel allows thousands of Palestinians to return to work inside the green line.
21 July: Palestinian PM holds talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a tour that will also include Amman and Washington.
The IOF kill a Palestinian in Jenin after claiming that he was planning a suicide bombing.
An unknown assailant stabs and wounds an Israeli in Jerusalem, but no Palestinian group claims responsibility.
The Palestinian minister of prisoners' affairs announces that he will meet with the Israeli head of the Shabak in the coming 48 hours to discuss the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinians demonstrate in Gaza to protest Israel's refusal to release more than 6500 Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinian individuals and organisations from 15 European countries meet at a London conference and announce that the right of return is a sacred right that won't be abandoned by Palestinian refugees.
The Israeli foreign minister admits that Israel has failed to convince European countries to sever their ties with the Palestinian president.
Israel's government plans to build 30 new towns in Israel.
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, debates the question of the demolition of Jewish settlements in the presence of PM Ariel Sharon.
22 July: The Israeli government announces that an Israeli committee will be meeting tomorrow to put together a list of Palestinian prisoners that Israel allegedly plans to release from its jails.
Palestinian PM concludes talks with Egyptian officials and says that without any progress in the peace talks with Israel over the release of prisoners, settlements and the apartheid wall, there will be no stability.
Israel prepares, and the Palestinians reject, a list of 350 prisoners that Israel plans to release from its jails. The list does not include Hamas or Islamic Jihad activists and also excludes Palestinians who carried out any acts of resistance against the occupation.
Complied by Salonaz Mohamed
