Gaza–Israel conflict: what Wikipedia removed
The 2010 opening described “Palestinian militants shooting Qassam rockets at Israeli settlements” and the cross-border raid that captured Gilad Shalit. Today’s opening leads with Israel’s wars and states that during the first occupation “1% of Gaza Strip’s population was either killed, tortured or imprisoned by Israel”. Jihad peaked at 6 mentions and is down to 1.
The word “jihad” appeared 6 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jihad | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| militant | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| islamist | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| massacre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| martyr | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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”- Hamas’s election as the origin of the conflict phase, removed, along with the word Islamist.
- A comparison to the Houthis as a militant rebel group, removed.
- The Geneva Conventions citation, dropped with the passage it supported.
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:
- 2024-01-08, Vice regent, edit summary: “moved to the body” (see the diff)
- 2023-12-30, PrimaPrime, edit summary: “Update infobox casualties” (see the diff)
- 2023-10-28, Marokwitz, edit summary: ”/* top */ Refresh lead with newer summary and updated sources, based [[2023 Israel-Hamas war]] , see source article for ” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 370075228):
Map of the conflict area The Gaza–Israel conflict is an on-going conflict that escalated following Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip and is a component of the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict . Counterintuitively, the conflict increased following Israel’s removal of all Israeli civilians and military from Gaza (completed by September 12, 2005). According to the terms of the Disengagement Plan, Israel retained exclusive control over Gaza’s airspace, continued to guard and monitor the external land perimeter of the Gaza Strip, with the exception of its southernmost border (where Egypt retained control of the border and border crossings were supervised by European monitors), and continued to…
2026 (revision 1366304355):
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict For the ongoing war, see Gaza war . For other uses, see Gaza War (disambiguation) . Belligerents All-Palestine Protectorate Palestinian fedayeen Palestinian Authority Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip Gazan Salafi-jihadist groups Israel Israeli-backed groups : Popular Forces Popular Army – Northern Forces Fatah -affiliated groups Counter-Terrorism Strike Force Shuja’iyya Popular Defense Forces Khanidak clan (disputed) Al-Mujaida clan (disputed) Casualties and losses 56,000–80,000+ killed 1,944+ killed The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when about 200,000 of the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fl…
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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