The Clashes: A Chronology
A look at 15 days of Israeli-Palestinian clashes that have left 94 people dead, including 77 Palestinians, 10 Israeli-Arabs and 7 other Israelis, including three soldiers:
Sept. 28: Israel's hard-line opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits a Jerusalem shrine holy to Jews and Muslims. Angered by the visit, Palestinians riot. Dozens of police and several Palestinians injured.
Sept. 29: Six Palestinians killed and close to 200 wounded in clashes at the shrine, known as Temple Mount to Jews and Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, and elsewhere in Jerusalem.
Sept. 30: Clashes erupt in West Bank and Gaza Strip. Fourteen Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, including 12-year-old Mohammed Aldura, whose death is captured by a television cameraman and broadcast around the world.
Oct. 1: Cease-fire agreed on but collapses. Twelve killed, including an Israeli border policeman who bleeds to death inside Joseph's Tomb in West Bank city of Nablus as Palestinian gunmen keep medics away.
Oct. 2: In the heaviest day of fighting, 19 are killed. Israeli Arabs also protest in solidarity with Palestinians. Israelis barred from travel in Palestinian territories.
Oct. 3: Reports of cease-fire agreement, but clashes resume. Six killed.
Oct. 4: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat fly to France, meet U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and French President Jacques Chirac. Both sides order military forces away from flashpoints. Seven killed at home.
Oct. 5: Israeli tanks roll back from positions in West Bank. Arafat meets Albright and President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Malaysia presents draft U.N. resolution condemning the violence committed by Israeli security forces. Three killed.
Oct. 6: Israel seals West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli troops storm Jerusalem shrine after Palestinians hoist flag. One killed in clash with police outside the shrine, nine die in West Bank and Gaza.
Oct. 7: Demonstrators storm Joseph's Tomb after Israeli withdrawal, setting fires and tearing up holy Jewish books. Confrontations erupt on Lebanese border and Hezbollah abducts three Israeli soldiers. Barak issues 48-hour ultimatum to Arafatstop the violence or peace talks will end and Israeli troops will act with full force. Four Palestinians killed.
Oct. 8: Israeli army blows up two apartment buildings and one factory building in Gaza used as a perch by Palestinian gunmen. Jewish settler Hillel Lieberman is found dead in a cave near a West Bank highway. Two Palestinians and one Israeli Arab killed.
Oct. 9: Clashes in Jerusalem, Nazareth and Hebron continue through the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov travel to the region for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials. Barak's 48-hour deadline is extended to avoid a prolonged armed conflict. Violence between Israei Arabs and Jews erupts across the country. Three Palestinians killed.
Oct. 10: Barak says it is too early to tell whether a slight fall in level of violence is enough to resume negotiations. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy is shot in the head in Gaza, rioting continues in the West Bank.
Oct. 11: Violence continues amid a flurry of diplomatic activity. In Hebron, an effigy of Barak is burned at a Palestinian march. Israelis and Palestinians exchange gunfire in cities, villages and along West Bank highways. Three Palestinians killed.
Oct. 12: At least two Israeli soldiers killed and mutilated by Palestinian mob, Israeli helicopters rocket Palestinian targets including Yasser Arafat's residential compound, police stations and broadcasting centers. The 12-year-old boy shot Oct. 10 dies of his wounds.
Oct. 13: Despite a lull in the violence following the lynching and rocket attacks of the day before, a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli fire, and riot police blocked Muslims from a contested Jerusalem shrine to prevent more bloodshed. The United Nations, United States and Egypt worked to get Israeli and Palestinian leaders to agree to a weekend summit.