Kfar Shouba: what Wikipedia removed
Kfar Shouba is the Lebanese village near the Israeli border where Hezbollah abducted and murdered Israeli soldiers. The 2010 opening said the killings ‘was carried out by Hezbollah, a militant group defined as a terrorist organization by the United States.’ Today’s opening omits the episode and the designation entirely, and the word terror appears nowhere in the article, count zero. A reader today does not learn that the United States designates Hezbollah, the group responsible for the abduction and murder there, as a terrorist organization.
The word “occupation” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 8. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| occupation | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 0 | 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 original short identification of the village was rewritten into the current longer opening.
- The sentence on the village’s elevation and distance from Beirut was reworded, not removed.
- The sentence on its location near Israel and the Golan Heights was reworded, not removed.
- The sentence naming Hezbollah, the group behind an abduction and murder of Israeli soldiers there, as a group the United States defines as a terrorist organization was cut, and the word no longer appears anywhere in the article.
- The sentence on the destruction of 60 houses during the 2006 Israeli invasion was cut from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 367437800):
Kfarchouba (in Arabic كفرشوبا) is a Lebanese village , in the Nabatieh Governorate in Southern Lebanon . Situated in the region of Arkoub 1256 m above sea level and is 130 km from Beirut. Located on the borders of Israel and the Golan Heights, it monitors the depth of both, Israel and Lebanese Bekaa, which makes it a strategic military location. The Israeli forces have repeatedly repelled attacks from the village by invading in the years 1967, 1970, and 1972. The first invasion in 1975 destroyed most of the village. In 1982, in response to repeated Palestinian attacks from the Lebanon side of the border, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied much of the country reaching the capital Beirut . Is…
2025 (revision 1284493348):
Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate Kfar Shouba ( Arabic : كفرشوبا ), also known as Kfarshouba and Kafr Shuba , is a municipality in the Hasbaya District of the Nabatieh Governorate in Southern Lebanon . The people of the village are Sunni Muslims. It is situated in the region of Arkoub, at 1256 m above sea level and 130 km from Beirut. Located near the border of Israel and the Golan Heights, not far from the Shebaa Farms , it overlooks in depth both Israel and the Lebanese Bekaa , which makes it a strategic military location.
Related
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- 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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