Palestinian domestic weapons production: what Wikipedia removed

The article covers Palestinian groups that built their own rockets, anti-tank missiles and RPGs for use against Israel. Through October 2023 the opening called the groups building these weapons various militant Palestinian groups. Today the opening calls them insurgent Palestinian, or Palestinian resistance, groups, and the word militant survives once in the body. A reader today gets the groups’ preferred self-description, resistance, in place of Wikipedia’s earlier plainer term.

The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/palestinian-domestic-weapons-production.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
militant	1	1	1	1	0
resistance	1	2	2	2	2

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• The groups building weapons were relabeled from militant Palestinian groups to insurgent, or Palestinian resistance, groups.

How it opened then, and now

2010 (revision 339087993):

Even before the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada , various militant Palestinian groups built domestically produced weapons for use against the Israel Defense Forces , including rockets to launch into Israel . Most of the effort has been in the production of unguided artillery rockets, though Hamas has built its own versions of anti-tank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Though usually smuggled across the Egyptian border into the Gaza Strip and to a lesser extent Jordanian border into the West Bank , various small arms are believed to be produced in the Palestinian territories . On 14 August 2008 the Popular Resistance Committee showed off the Nasser-4 missile, an upgraded versio…

2025 (revision 1297827823):

Even before the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada , various insurgent Palestinian ( Palestinian resistance ) groups built domestically-produced weapons for attacks against Israel . Most of the effort has been in the production of unguided artillery rockets , though Hamas has built its own versions of anti-tank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Though usually smuggled across the Egyptian border into the Gaza Strip and to a lesser extent Jordanian border into the West Bank , various small arms are believed to be produced in the Palestinian territories . On 14 August 2008 the Popular Resistance Committees showed off the Nasser-4 missile, an upgraded version of the existing Nasser-3 …

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