Khaled Mashal: what Wikipedia removed
The Hamas political chief. “Occupation” entered his opening only recently and now appears twice, framing both his family’s flight in 1967 and the founding of Hamas.
The word “occupation” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2025. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| terror | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 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
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16193957):
Khaled Mashal , also known as Khaled Mashaal (b. 1956 ) is considered to be the leader of the Hamas organization, engaged in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . He has been described alternately as the “political leader” of the group and the leader of Hamas’ Syrian branch. He may be both. He currently operates from Damascus, Syria . On September 25 , 1997 Mashal was the target of an assassination attempt carried out by the Israeli Mossad under the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet. Ten Mossad agents carrying Canadian passports entered Jordan , where Mashal was living, and injected him with a toxic substance. At the time of the assassination attempt Mashal…
2026 (revision 1366412673):
Palestinian politician (born 1956) Khaled Mashal ( Arabic : خالد مشعل , romanized : Khālid Mashʿal , Levantine Arabic: [ˈχæːled ˈmeʃʕæl] ; born 28 May 1956) is a Palestinian politician who served as the second chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017, when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh . He has been the acting leader of Hamas twice, from July 2024 until August 2024 and since October 2024 , after both leaders were assassinated by Israel . He is regarded as one of the most prominent leaders of Hamas since the death of Ahmed Yassin , alongside Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar . Mashal was born in Silwad in 1956. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip …
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