1979 Nahariya attack: what Wikipedia removed
The 1979 Nahariya attack was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front militants, led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar, that killed three Israelis including a father and two young children. As of October 2023 the opening’s short description called it a 1979 terrorist attack in Israel. Today the short description reads 1979 militant attack in Israel, with terror surviving 13 times in the body. A reader skimming the description today learns this was a militant attack, not that it was described as a terrorist attack.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 13. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”The changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 370811948):
33°00′N 35°05′E / 33.00°N 35.09°E / 33.00; 35.09 Samir Kuntar The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on April 22, 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. The raid resulted in the deaths of four Israelis - including a father and two of his young children - and two of the perpetrators. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenc…
2025 (revision 1296703423):
1979 militant attack in Israel Not to be confused with 1974 Nahariya attack . The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on 22 April 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. During the attack they killed three Israelis, including a father and two of his young children. Another child was accidentally suffocated in efforts to hide her from the attackers. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of m…
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