The collapse of peace talks between Israelis…

The collapse of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in September 2000 leads to an increase in violence that comes to be known as the Aqsa intifadah, a conflict marked by a degree of violence unseen in the first intifadah.

The Israeli soldiers' killings of the six unarmed protesters inaugurate over a month of demonstrations and clashes across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

For a brief period, these demonstrations spread into Palestinian towns inside Israel.

On October 7, the conflict widens to the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Hezbollah militants abduct three Israeli soldiers.

Tanzim, the militant wing of Fatah, which has coordinated many street actions, now has a substantial cache of small arms and has fired often on Israeli troops.

The Israeli military response escalates dramatically after two soldiers, allegedly "lost" in PA-controlled Ram Allah, are lynched on October 12 by a Palestinian mob returning from the funeral of an unarmed young man whom soldiers had shot dead the day before.

The IDF attacks PA installations in Ram Allah, ...