Eastern Mediterranean 2000: Second Intifada

In September 1995 Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (commonly known as the Oslo II Accord) in Taba, Egypt, with a witnessed signing occurring four days later in Washington, D.C. The agreement increased the powers of the Palestinian Authority and designated areas in the West Bank to receive varying degrees of Palestinian administration (Area A having full Palestinian control, Area B joint Israeli-Palestinian control, and Area C full Israeli control). By the terms of the agreement, Israel ceded the A areas of Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus, Qalqiliya, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and most of Hebron to the Palestinians between 13 November 1995 and 17 January 1997. in wikipedia

24 Mar–11 Jun 1999 Kosovo War ▲

The collapse of Yugoslavia saw the beginning of an insurgency by the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. When the Yugoslav government retaliated against the KLA through collective punishment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, NATO intervened with an aerial bombing campaign. On 12 June 1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević agreed to NATO’s peace terms, allowing the NATO-led peacekeeping Kosovo Force (KFOR) to take over the administration of the region. in wikipedia

24 May 2000 Israeli evacuation of South Lebanon ▲

In July 1999 Ehud Barak became Prime Minister of Israel on the promise that he would end Israel’s 22-year-long-occupation of southern Lebanon. The last Israeli forces left southern Lebanon in May 2000, abandoning their Maronite Christian allies, the South Lebanese Army, many of whose members relocated to northern Israel. As they withdrew, the Israelis were persistently harassed by the Shia Muslim guerrillas of Hezbollah, who quickly took control of the region. in wikipedia

29 Sep 2000–8 Feb 2005 Second Intifada ▲

In the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David (July 2000), talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority broke down, in part because of conflicting claims over Jerusalem. When Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon publicly visited Temple Mount in Jerusalem in September, the Palestinians were outraged and broke into rioting. Unrest soon spread across the West Bank and Gaza, as well as in parts of Israel, leading the Israel Defense Forces to temporarily occupy the Palestinian Authority areas in 2002. Eventually in February 2005 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and (by then) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon negotiated an armistice, largely bringing to the conflict to an end at the cost of some 3,000 Palestinian and 1,000 Israeli dead. in wikipedia