Nightline: Middle East Timeline

July 30 -- Tonight, Nightline will look at the most recent violence in the Middle East and talk to Avraham Burg, the Speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and Martin Indyk, former American Ambassador to Israel. Below is a timeline of key events of the last 10 months of violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Key events in 10 months of violence and peacemaking efforts

Sept. 28: Palestinians riot after a visit to a disputed Jerusalem holy site by hard-line opposition leader Ariel Sharon, triggering the "Al Aqsa Intefadeh," or uprising, named after the mosque at the holy site.

Sept. 30: Palestinian boy, Mohammed Aldura, caught in cross fire, dies in father's arms in front of TV camera and becomes symbol of Palestinian uprising.

Oct. 4: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat fly to Paris to meet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and French President Jacques Chirac, but leave without meeting and without a cease-fire accord.

Oct. 12: Two Israeli soldiers mistakenly enter a Palestinian city and are killed and their bodies mutilated by a Palestinian mob. Israel retaliates with helicopter rocket attacks.

Oct. 17: Barak and Arafat agree to a cease-fire and pullback of Israeli forces at a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, directed by President Clinton.

Oct. 21: Nine Palestinians killed and more than 100 wounded in heavy fighting as cease-fire collapses.

Nov. 1: Israeli Cabinet minister Shimon Peres meets Arafat in Gaza to work out a truce, which collapses soon after it goes into force.

Nov. 2: Car bomb explodes in Jerusalem's market, killing two. First of many bomb attacks in Israeli cities.

Nov. 9: Israeli helicopters fire rockets at car, killing local Palestinian leader Hussein Abayat, the first of a series of Israeli targeted killings of suspected Palestinian militants.

Nov. 21: Two Israeli adults are killed and nine people, including four children, are wounded in a bomb attack on a school bus in the Gaza Strip.