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IDF outpost bombing attack (December 2004): what Wikipedia removed

The 2004 IDF outpost bombing attack killed five Bedouin IDF soldiers at a border outpost between Gaza and Egypt. Through 2015 the opening called it an integrated terrorist attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad. Today the same sentence calls it an integrated attack, and the word terrorist is gone from the opening’s description of the attack, though terror survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns who carried out the attack and not that the opening’s own words once classified it as a terrorist attack.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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word201520206 October 20232025
terror1000
militant2222

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 changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.

How it opened then, and now

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2015 (revision 660559834):

The 2004 IDF outpost bombing attack was an integrated terrorist attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas and the Fatah Hawks (a military wing of Fatah ) at an IDF outpost located on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt . Five Bedouin IDF soldiers from the Desert Patrol Battalion were killed in the attack and six others were injured, and the outpost was totally destroyed. Two Palestinian militants were also killed during the attack. ^ “BBC NEWS - Middle East - Five Israelis die in Gaza attack” . Retrieved 14 December 2014 .

2025 (revision 1286474426):

Attack on the border checkpoint in Rafah The 2004 IDF outpost bombing attack was an integrated attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas and the Fatah Hawks (a military wing of Fatah ) at an Israel Defense Forces outpost located on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt . Five Bedouin IDF soldiers from the Desert Patrol Battalion were killed in the attack and six others were injured, and the outpost was destroyed. Two Palestinian militants were also killed during the attack. ^ “Five Israelis die in Gaza attack” . BBC News . 13 December 2014.

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