Fathi Hamad: what Wikipedia removed
The Hamas minister who said on television that his people use women and children as human shields. The opening once described Palestinian militant groups calling for kidnappings and cited his broadcast as evidence. Terror ran at 3 mentions and militant at 2; both are 0 today.
The word “terror” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| resistance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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”- His designation as a terrorist by the US State Department, removed from the opening.
- The cited State Department announcement naming him a global terrorist, removed.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2023-12-05, Longhornsg, edit summary: “clean up” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 359122901):
Fathi Hamad (or Fathi Hammad ) ( Template:Lang-ar ) is a political leader of Hamas . In April 2009, he was appointed the new Interior Minister in replacement of Said Seyam who was assassinated by Israel in the 2009 Gaza War . Hamad became a Hamas affiliated member of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006, representing his home town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. He also leads the Hamas Public Affairs Department and is the director of Al Aqsa TV , the Hamas-run television station. In November 2009, Waad, a Gaza charity headed by Hamad, offered a $1.4 million bounty to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts an Israeli soldier. While Palestinian militant groups have frequently called on …
2026 (revision 1364953352):
Palestinian politician (born 1961) Fathi Ahmad Hamad ( Arabic : فتحي أحمد حماد , also spelled Fathi Hammad ; born 3 January 1961) is a Palestinian politician and member of the Hamas political bureau. He was Interior Minister in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip from 2009 to 2014. ^ “حركة المقاومة الإسلامية - حماس” [Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas]. hamas.ps . Archived from the original on 6 December 2017.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- 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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