Palestine: what Wikipedia removed
“Occupation” ran at 1 mention in 2005 and stands at 8 today. “Genocide”, absent from this opening for eighteen years, appears 7 times, every one of them added after October 7, 2023.
The word “occupation” appeared 8 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| occupation | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
| terror | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| genocide | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
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”- Hamas rule of Gaza lost the word militant.
- Israel’s stated security rationale, removed.
- The top description was reworded.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2024-10-24, Guyrichtheman (see the diff)
- 2024-04-06, Kharbaan Ghaltaan (see the diff)
- 2024-04-04, Makeandtoss, edit summary: “what on earth is this chunk?” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16118928):
Error: please specify at least 1 portal The State of Palestine ( Arabic : دولة فلسطين) was proclaimed on November 15 , 1988 by the Palestinian National Council , the legislative body of the PLO , in Algiers , by a vote of 253-46, with 10 abstentions. The declaration invoked the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and UN General Assembly Resolution 181 in support of its claim to a “State of Palestine on our Palestinian territory with its capital Jerusalem”. It became the most diplomatically successful of a number of efforts to create a Palestinian state , despite the fact that, because the State of Palestine did not have control over any territory at the time, it did not fulfill a typical requirement o…
2026 (revision 1366626752):
Country in West Asia This article is about the country. For the geographical region, see Palestine (region) . For other uses, see Palestine (disambiguation) . Palestine , officially the State of Palestine , is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia . It encompasses the West Bank , including East Jerusalem , and the Gaza Strip , both of which are occupied by Israel . These territories are collectively known as the Palestinian territories , or occupied Palestinian territory . They share the vast majority of their borders with Israel , with the West Bank bordering Jordan to the east and the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt to the southwest. It has a total land area of 6,020 square kilom…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- 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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