Roadmap timeline:
By
Salonaz Mohamed
30 July: 10 Palestinian detainees and five Israeli prison guards are wounded in Shikma Prison in southern Israel after a riot breaks out to protest prison conditions.
PA officials meet to discuss the escalation of Israeli actions against the peace process and call on the sponsors of the process to take immediate action.
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon announces that the implementation of the first phase of the roadmap peace plan is beginning.
A 13 year-old Palestinian boy is wounded after the IOF open fire on Palestinian demonstrators in the northern West Bank village of Salem near Nablus.
In a clear defiance of the roadmap, Israel announces plans to build new homes in an Israeli settlement in Gaza.
The IOF begin to dismantle a reinforced military position at Netzarim junction in the Gaza strip.
PA Minister of Security Mohamed Dahlan accuses Israel of not being serious about implementing the roadmap.
Michael Sheikh, an Australian student and peace activist with the International Solidarity Committee (ISM) is detained at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport and threatened with deportation for being a "security risk".
31 July: Israel public radio reports that Palestinian prisoners slated for release from Israeli jails must sign a pledge not to carry out anti-occupation activities.
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon warns that his government will not tolerate the slightest Palestinian violation of the roadmap.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher says that Israel's apartheid wall indicates that the Israeli government is not prepared to accept an independent Palestinian state.
The IOF arrest two West Bank settlers on suspicion of committing security offences.
1 August: US Secretary of State Colin Powell warns that Israel's construction of the apartheid wall could undermine the roadmap.
Palestinian detainees in four Israeli jails start a hunger strike to express their solidarity with the 30 July riot at Shikma Prison.
A Palestinian who was wounded in an IOF raid on Gaza six months ago dies of his wounds.
Tension rises between Israel and the Palestinians after back to back talks in Washington fail to yield any breakthrough on the implementation of the roadmap.
Eight West Bank Palestinians are wounded in two separate incidents during clashes with the IOF.
Clashes break out between the IOF and around 1,000 Palestinians and international peace activists during a protest against the apartheid wall; seven protesters are wounded after the IOF fire tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Farmers from the northern West Bank village of Deir Al-Ghassoon near Tulkarm manage to cut through the apartheid wall that has prevented them from reaching their land.
2 August: The IOF confiscate three hectares of Palestinian land near an Israeli settlement in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade announces that it will end its hudna with Israel after the PA decides to transfer 20 of its activists from Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah to a Palestinian jail in Jericho.
The Bush administration backs away from demands that the PA immediately dismantle armed resistance groups because it is concerned that the PA's security forces are too weak to carry out the task.
The Palestinian cabinet decides to launch an international campaign against Israel's continued construction of the apartheid wall.
Islamic Jihad threatens to end the hudna and resume attacks against Israel following the violent suppression of the 30 July riot at Shikma Prison.
Official Israeli sources say that despite the arrest of 20 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade activists from Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, Israel has no intention of allowing the besieged Palestinian leader Arafat to move freely.
A 13 year-old Palestinian boy is killed and four other teenagers are injured while handling a grenade they found in their Gaza Strip refugee camp.
3 August: Four Palestinian youths from the East Jerusalem suburb of Shufat are indicted for trying to murder an Israeli cyclist in Jerusalem 10 days ago.
Israeli policemen shoot dead a Palestinian driver north of Jerusalem.
Fatah leaders reject Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade's statement threatening to end the hudna if its activists at Arafat's headquarters are not freed.
Israeli FM Silvan Shalom and his Palestinian counterpart Nabil Sha'ath hold their first formal talks in Jerusalem.
The Israeli Border Police apprehend 2,700 Palestinian workers staying in Israel without permits.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade announces it will uphold the hudna after the decision to move its activists from Arafat's Ramallah headquarters to a Jericho jail is reversed.
A delegation of 29 democratic members of the US House of Representatives arrives in Israel for meetings with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials.
Israel orders its military and police to remove six illegal West Bank settlement outposts and evict their occupants.
The IOF arrest three wanted Palestinian activists in the West Bank.
The IOF kill a Palestinian activist near Tulkarm.
The IOF search for a missing 18 year-old Israeli woman amidst fears that she might have been kidnapped by Palestinians.
An Israeli cabinet committee meets to consider freeing hundreds of Palestinian detainees in addition to the 540 detainees already slated for release.
PA Minister of Security Mohamed Dahlan and his Israeli counterpart General Amos Gilad fail to agree on further IOF withdrawals from West Bank cities.
4 August: The Israeli government announces that it will not transfer control of more cities to the PA until the later takes action against armed resistance groups that have not accepted the hudna.
The illegal settlement outpost of Tel Haim near Beit El (Ramallah) is dismantled, as part of a deal allowing Tel Haim's settlers to move their caravans to the settlement of Har Artis.
Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas holds discussions with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad over extending the hudna.
Palestinian gunmen ambush an Israeli settler car near Jerusalem, wounding a mother, her daughter and two other children. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claims responsibility for the attack.
US President George Bush says that he will push through a $26 million emergency aid package to the PA.
The IOF arrest three wanted Palestinian activists in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh and three in Nablus.
US officials say the Bush administration is considering deducting the cost of the apartheid wall from US loan guarantees to Israel.
5 August: Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas tells senior Fatah leaders to rein in armed resistance cells.
Israel halts the transfer of control of more West Bank towns to the PA.
Israel completes the transfer of all frozen taxes to the PA.
The IOF detain 41 activists during a West Bank protest against the apartheid wall.
