09.07.2001 - Bulldozers leveled 14 Palestinian homes under construction in one of Israel's biggest demolition operations in years, provoking tears and stone-throwing at a refugee camp on the northern edge of Jerusalem. The Palestinians said the demolitions were part of an Israeli effort to restrict their numbers in and around Jerusalem.

11.07.2001 - A Palestinian woman in labor was barred from passing an Israeli military checkpoint for 2 1/2 hours, giving birth in her car to a baby boy who died before reaching a medical clinic, her doctor said. In another checkpoint confrontation, an Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian woman after her taxi evaded a roadblock trying to take workers to jobs inside Israel.

17.07.2001 - Two Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a Palestinian farm , killing four people, including two senior Hamas activists. The helicopter attack obliterated a farm building near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Palestinian security sources identified two of the dead as Omar Saadeh and Taha Aruj, another of the dead was a cousin of Saadeh.

25.07.2001 - Israel's army fired missiles from a hillside position, killing a activist from Hamas as he drove his car in a West Bank town. The activist, Saleh Darwazeh, 38, was alone in his red Volkswagen when it was hit by five rounds in Nablus. The car was destroyed in the attack, which sent black plumes of smoke rising over the town. Palestinian ambulances rushed to the scene and recovered the body, which was torn to pieces by the force of the blast.

30.07.2001 - An explosion ripped through a car parts store in the West Bank, killing six Palestinian activists in one of the deadliest single episodes in 10 months of Intifada. Hours later, Israeli helicopters rocketed the Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City, injuring two policemen. The helicopter strike sent white smoke rising from the police compound as people ran frantically from the buildings into the street. The first clashes in the current Intifada broke out at the site Sept. 29 - the day after a controversial visit by Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, who was opposition leader at the time. Since then, 539 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army.