Key events in the crisis between Israel, the Palestinians and Lebanon:
June 25: Palestinians attack army post on Israel-Gaza border, killing two soldiers and capturing a third.
June 26: Three Palestinian groups capture 19-year-old soldier Gilad Shalit to demand release of women and minors detained by Israel.
June 28: Israeli ground forces enter southern Gaza for first time since September.
June 29: Israel detains scores of Hamas members, including one third of the Palestinian cabinet.
June 30: Israeli jets blitz Gaza, set interior ministry ablaze.
July 1: Israel rejects Palestinian demand to free 1,000 prisoners.
July 2: Israel hits Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya's Gaza office.
July 3: Israel sends troops and armour into northern Gaza.
July 6: Twenty-two Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israel reoccupies areas, two others die in West Bank.
US rejects UN Security Council draft resolution demanding immediate Israeli withdrawal and release of detained Palestinian officials.
July 12: Hezbollah captures two Israeli soldiers and kills eight.
Israel launches air strikes and sends ground troops into Lebanon for the first time since its May 2000 pullout.
23 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza.
July 13: Israel bombs Beirut airport, kills at least 44 civilians in air strikes across Lebanon.
Two Israelis killed by Hezbollah rockets.
Russia, France, Britain and Italy criticise "disproportionate" use of force by Israel. US blames "terrorists who want to stop the advance of peace".
US vetoes UN resolution calling on Israel to halt Gaza militaryoperations.
July 14: Israel bombs Beirut home of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who declares "open war".
Israel sets conditions to end offensive: halt rocket attacks, release its soldiers, and Lebanon to implement UN resolution on Hezbollah disarmament.
July 15: Hezbollah attacks Israeli warship, killing four sailors.
Eighteen civilians killed in Israeli attack.
July 16: Eight Israelis killed by Hezbollah rockets on Haifa.
Four Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza.
July 17: Israeli strikes kill 43 Lebanese. Hezbollah rejects Israeli ceasefire terms.
July 19: At least 70 civilians killed on deadliest day of Israel's Lebanon offensive.
July 20: Foreigners pour out of Lebanon by land, sea and air.
July 21: Israel calls up thousands, warning of possible invasion of Lebanon.
July 23: Syria warns Israel not to invade Lebanon.
Defence Minster Amir Peretz says Israel supports international force for southern Lebanon, possibly sponsored by NATO.
July 24: UN relief chief Jan Egeland appeals for 150 million dollars to help 800,000 civilians made homeless by Israeli raids.
July 25: Israeli air raid kills four UN observers on Lebanese border. UN chief Kofi Annan blames "apparently deliberate targeting".
July 26: Rome summit ends with no commitment to ceasefire.
Nine elite Israeli soldiers killed in southern Lebanon.
First UN aid convoy heads south from Beirut.
Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip kill 24 Palestinians.
July 27: Israel steps up air assault and mobilises extra reservists.
EU offers peacekeeping forces if UN resolution allows.
July 29: Israel rejects UN call for three-day humanitarian truce as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns for talks.
Israeli air strikes kill 14 Lebanese civilians.
Lebanon coast polluted after oil refinery targeted.
Israel undercover soldiers kill two militants in West Bank.
July 30: Twenty-eight Lebanese civilians -- including 16 children -- killed in Israeli air strike on Qana.
Lebanon calls it a "war crime" and demands immediate ceasefire.
Hamas says "all options open" against Israel.
July 31: Israel declares 48-hour halt to air strikes on Lebanon.
Israel says war on Hezbollah will "change the face of the region."
Israel spared rocket fire for first time since crisis began.
August 1: Israeli cabinet gives army green light to push 30 km into Lebanon.
Defence minister says goal is to pave the way for an international force.
Israel concedes it cannot eliminate Hezbollah's rocket arsenal.
Ground troops expand offensive and battle Hezbollah at Bint Jbeil.
August 2: Israeli commandos fly to Baalbek, 100 km inside Lebanon, seize five alleged Hezbollah militants and kill 16 civilians, including seven children.
Hezbollah rockets fall near Beit Shean, 60 km inside Israel, deepest strike so far.
Lebanese government assesses damage at 2.5 billion dollars.
August 3: Israel resumes air strikes on Beirut.
Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah chief threatens to rocket Tel Aviv.
August 4: Israeli jets bomb bridges on coastal highway north of Beirut, killing five.
At least 23 people, most Syrian, killed in Israeli raid at Qaa on Lebanese-Syrian border.
Israel hits Sohmor power station, cutting electricity to Bekaa Valley and south Lebanon.
Hezbollah fires 220 rockets at Israel, including one at Hadera 40 km north of Tel Aviv in deepest strike so far.
August 5: Israeli commandos kill four senior Hezbollah members in Tyre.
Israeli offensive on Gaza continues, killing four Palestinians.
August 6: Israel's bloodiest day so far: 12 soldiers die in rocket attack on Kfar Giladi near border, three civilians killed and 160 wounded in Haifa.
Israeli raids on Lebanon kill at least 12 civilians, one soldier and one pro-Syrian Palestinian militant.
Hezbollah says three fighters killed, taking its announced toll to 51.
UN Security Council debates Franco-US draft resolution demanding "full cessation of hostilities", but Lebanon, Iran and Syria reject it and Hezbollah says it will stop fighting only if Israeli troops leave Lebanon.
Syria warns of regional war if attacked.
Israeli troops arrest Hamas speaker of Palestinian parliament and a legislator in West Bank raids.
Gaza and West Bank death toll now 170 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier, killed by friendly fire.
August 7: Israeli raids kill 69 Lebanese civilians; official Lebanese toll now more than 1,000 dead and around 3,500 wounded.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says "no limits" imposed on army.
Three Israeli soldiers die in clashes in Bint Jbeil.
Arab League ministers meet in Beirut.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora demands changes to UN draft, seeks backing for his own peace plan including Israeli withdrawal, boosted UN force, Lebanese army deployment in south and disarmament of Hezbollah.
Lebanon calls up reservists, offers to deploy 15,000 troops at border.
August 8: Israeli air force drops leaflets on south Lebanon, threatens to attack any moving vehicle. Aid agencies warn of threat to relief supplies.
Olmert says Lebanon's troop deployment proposal "interesting," but other officials say it could be "smokescreen" for Hezbollah.
Twenty believed dead after raids on previously-spared Beirut district.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urges Israel and Hezbollah to "respect their obligations under international humanitarian law."
Arab ministers meet UN Security Council.
August 9: Israel's security cabinet decides to expand ground war.
Israeli warplanes kill 11 people, including a Hezbollah official and his five children, in raids across Lebanon.
Israeli casualties now stand at 65 military and 36 civilian dead.
Kiryat Shmona is first Israeli town to be evacuated since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.
France and the United States hold new talks to overcome divisions on a Security Council resolution calling for an end to hostilities.
Aid agencies say relief supplies paralysed by Israeli bombing of roads and bridges.
August 10: Columns of Israeli tanks thrust into Lebanon as troops seize southern border town of Marjayun and occupying Lebanese army barracks.
Israel says it has put wider offensive on hold to give diplomacy chance.
One Israeli soldier killed in southern Lebanon, and two people killed by Hezbollah rocket in northern Israel.
UN Secretary General Koffi Annan calls for UN Security Council resolution on conflict by the end of week. France says deal on draft text imminent, and Lebanese official says tangible progress made.
Israeli warplanes drop leaflets on Shiite districts of Beirut warning residents to leave immediately.
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland blames both sides for aggravating a crisis that has left almost one million people homeless.