Qassam rocket: what Wikipedia removed
The Qassam rocket is a homemade artillery rocket made by Hamas’s military wing and fired at Israeli population centers. Through 2010 the opening said it ‘gained notoriety as the most well-known type of rocket deployed by Palestinian militants against Israeli civilian targets during the Second Intifada.’ Today’s opening never states who fires the rockets or that Israeli civilians are the target, describing them instead as ‘indiscriminate when used against targets in population centers,’ though the word survives three times in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that Palestinian militants deployed these rockets specifically against Israeli civilian targets.
The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| militant | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| jihad | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 date range for the rocket’s three production models, 2001 to 2010, is gone from the opening.
- The statement naming Palestinian militants as the ones who deployed the rockets against Israeli civilian targets is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16162190):
The Qassam rocket is a simple steel rocket filled with explosives, developed by the Palestinian organization Hamas . Three models have been used. All three models lack a guidance system . Qassam rockets are named after the Izz ad-din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas . According to the brigades, the Qassam rocket was first developed by Nidal Fat’hi Rabah Farahat and produced under the direction of Adnan al-Ghoul , known as the “Father of the Qassam,” who was killed by the Israeli military in October 2004. [1] The rockets have been used to attack various Israeli towns. In some areas, such as Sderot in the Negev and some Israeli settlements in Gaza , shelling occurs almost daily. …
2025 (revision 1296488431):
Palestinian homemade artillery rocket ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The Qassam rocket ( Arabic : صاروخ القسام Ṣārūkh al-Qassām ; also Kassam ) is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades , the military arm of Hamas . These rockets cannot be fired to target specific military objectives in or near civilian areas, and are “indiscriminate when used against targets in population centers”. Since the rocket was first manufactured in 2001 by Tito Masoud and Nidal Farhat , three models of the Qassam rocket have been produced and used. More generally, all types of Palestinian rockets fired into southern Israel , for example the Palest…
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