IDF field hospital for Gazans: what Wikipedia removed
The Israel Defense Forces opened a field hospital at Erez Crossing in 2014 for sick and injured Palestinians from Gaza. Through 2015 the opening said the IDF had urged civilians in northern Gaza to flee before intensifying the operation against the terror regime in Gaza. Today that characterization is gone from the opening entirely. A reader arriving now learns why and when the hospital opened and not that the opening once described the IDF’s characterization of Hamas’s government in Gaza as a terror regime.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. 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 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 0 | 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”- The description of when and why the field hospital opened, reworded in the current opening.
- An earlier phrasing describing the IDF as operating the field hospital, superseded by the current wording.
- The description of Hamas’s rule in Gaza as a “terror regime” and the continuation describing Hamas’s actions, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 650087578):
The Israel Defense Forces opened a field hospital at Erez Crossing on July 20, which tended to sick and injured Palestinians from Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operated a field hospital at the Gaza Strip border, providing emergency and humanitarian treatment for the Palestinians of Gaza. The hospital had 20 doctors, nurses and technicians, a lab, an X-ray device and a pharmacy. Among the doctors were a pediatrician, an ophthalmologist and a gynecologist. The hospital was also equipped for childbirth. The IDF had urged civilians in northern Gaza to flee the area before intensifying the operation against the terror regime in Gaza. Hamas, however, had urged them to remain in the area an…
2025 (revision 1297490741):
Hospital in Erez Crossing, Israel The Israel Defense Forces opened a field hospital at Erez Crossing on July 20, 2014, intending it to be for sick and injured Palestinians from Gaza . The hospital was opened in response to reports by Gazans and news media that the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict had caused a dire shortage of medical facilities in Gaza. The decision to set up the hospital was made by the Israeli government following the recommendation of the coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories General Yoav Mordechai , and approved by the IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz . According to Al Jazeera , Israeli soldiers at Erez Crossing attempted to persuade familie…
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