Ahmad Kurd: what Wikipedia removed
Ahmad Kurd was a Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Deir al-Balah in Gaza, elected in 2005 as Hamas’s candidate. The 2010 opening described Hamas as “the political party and militant group, Hamas.” Today’s opening calls Hamas only “the political party, Hamas,” and the word does not appear anywhere in the article. A reader today does not learn from the opening that Hamas, the party Kurd represented, is also a militant organization.
The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| militant | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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 description of Hamas as a militant group as well as a political party, dropped from the opening.
- The detail that Kurd’s charity ran a school enrolling 1,000 orphans, dropped from the article.
- A rewording of the detail about the size of Kurd’s family.
- A rewording of the introduction to Kurd’s quoted remarks to the Washington Post.
- Part of Kurd’s quoted remarks about wanting to live in an independent Palestinian state, dropped from the article.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 330489019):
Ahmad Kurd ( Template:Lang-ar ) (1949- ) is the mayor of Deir al-Balah located in the central Gaza Strip . He was elected as mayor in 2005 as the candidate for the political party and militant group, Hamas . He also occupies the job of local sheikh in the Deir al-Balah mosque. Kurd is the director of the Gaza Strip -based charity organization Salah Society. The organization has a school which has enrolled 1,000 orphans and other youngsters in Deir al-Balah. Kurd was born in Deir al-Balah camp a year after his family of five fled their home village near Ashkelon . That family now consists of 70 people, and Ahmad Kurd himself has 11 children with his Russian wife. Kurd stated to the Washington…
2025 (revision 1255465311):
Palestinian politician (1949–2020) Ahmad Kurd ( Arabic : أحمد كرد ; 13 September 1949 – 9 May 2020) was a Palestinian politician, who served as the mayor of Deir al-Balah located in the central Gaza Strip . He was elected as mayor in 2005 as the candidate for the political party, Hamas . He also served as local sheikh in the Deir al-Balah mosque. Kurd was the director of the Gaza Strip -based charity organization Salah Society. The organization runs a school for orphans in Deir al-Balah. Kurd was born in Deir al-Balah camp a year after his family of five fled their home village near Ashkelon . The family now numbers 70 people. Ahmad Kurd, who had 11 children with his Russian wife, told The W…
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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