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2014 kidnapping and murders of Israeli teenagers: what Wikipedia removed

The 2015 opening recorded that the Hamas kidnappers “had engaged in terrorism” and served time for it. Today: 0 in the opening, 42 in the body.

The word “terror” appeared 5 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 42. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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word201520206 October 202320252026
terror55000
militant11111
islamist11000
occupation10000
hostage11000

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The security service’s finding that the suspects had prior terrorism convictions, removed.
  • The fact that the boys were murdered almost immediately, removed. It is the fact that answers what the search was for.
  • The hostage and prisoner-swap plan, removed.
  • The opening account of the kidnapping was rewritten.
  • The arrest operation was reworded.

Who made the cuts

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Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

How it opened then, and now

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2015 (revision 669406383):

Graves of the three teenagers, Modi’in Cemetery On 12 June 2014, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped at the bus/hitch-hiking stop at the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion , in the occupied West Bank , as they were hitchhiking to their homes. The three teens were Naftali Fraenkel (16, from Nof Ayalon ), Gilad Shaer (16, from Talmon ), and Eyal Yifrah (19, from Elad ). Gilad Shaer called a police emergency hotline to report the kidnapping. The emergency call recording, initially under a gag order , was leaked to the public. After Gilad Shaer’s whispered message “They kidnapped me”, the taped call also recorded shouting in Arabic from the kidnappers and several volleys of autom…

2026 (revision 1364273913):

Palestinian attack on three Israeli teenagers 31°39′17″N 35°07′20″E  /  31.6547°N 35.1223°E  / 31.6547; 35.1223 The 2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder refers to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank during June 2014. The victims, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel, were Israeli students aged 16 and 19. On the evening of 12 June 2014, the three teenagers were hitchhiking in the Alon Shvut settlement in Gush Etzion , in the West Bank when they were abducted. The Israel Defense Forces immediately initiated Operation Brother’s Keeper ( Hebrew : מבצע שובו אחים , romanized : Mivtza Shuvu Ahim ) in search of the three teenager…

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