Jenin: what Wikipedia removed
Jenin is a West Bank city where the 2002 battle produced allegations, later disputed, that the IDF committed war crimes. In 2005 the opening said “Serious allegations of war crimes have also been levelled against the IDF,” and that “Others deny these charges, and angrily deny that war crimes were committed.” Today’s opening covers the city’s history and population, with no mention of the war crimes allegations or their denial; the phrase does not appear anywhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the 2002 fighting in Jenin produced war crimes allegations against the IDF or that those allegations were disputed.
The word “war crime” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| war crime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| islamist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| massacre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| occupation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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”- A sentence on radical Islamist elements returning to the city, dropped from the article.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 15945643):
Jenin , or Ǧanīn ( Arabic : جنين ) is a city in the West Bank , which - in accord with the Oslo Accords - is divided between Israeli and Palestinian control. Jenin is a predominantly Palestinian city with a refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank (Samaria). It overlooks both the Jordan Valley to the east, and the Jezreel Valley to the north. Jenin is the site of the ancient Israelite village of En Gannim ( See also: Anem ), and it is still not a large town. It has a population of a few tens of thousands. In particular, one of the city’s quarters is a officially a United Nations refugee camp housing mostly the descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . It has lon…
2025 (revision 1295181611):
Palestinian city, northern West Bank This article is about the city in Palestine. For other uses, see Jenin (disambiguation) . Municipality type A in State of Palestine Jenin ( / ʒ ɪ ˈ n iː n / zhin- EEN ; Arabic : جنين , romanized : Jinīn , locally pronounced [ʒɪˈniːn] ) is a city in the West Bank , Palestine , and is the capital of the Jenin Governorate . It is a hub for the surrounding towns. Jenin came under Israeli occupation in 1967, and was put under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority as Area A of the West Bank , a Palestinian enclave , in 1995. The city had a population of approximately 50,000 people in 2017, whilst the Jenin refugee camp had a population of abo…
Related
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- The live article on Wikipedia
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