Reprisal operations: what Wikipedia removed
Israel’s reprisal operations of the 1950s were military actions launched in response to Arab fedayeen infiltration and attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. Through 2015 the opening said, “These actions were in response to constant fedayeen terror attacks, when militants would infiltrated from Syria, Egypt, and Jordan into Israel and conduct guerrilla attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.” The word is gone from the opening today; the infobox and text now describe only “fedayeen attacks,” though terror survives 5 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the opening once explicitly named the fedayeen infiltrations that provoked these operations as terror attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 5. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| massacre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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”- The description of the fedayeen infiltrations as ‘terror attacks’ against Israeli civilians and soldiers is gone from the opening, which today names them only as ‘fedayeen attacks.‘
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 369198832):
Belligerents Israel Egypt Jordan Syria Palestinian fedayeen Commanders and leaders David Ben-Gurion Moshe Sharett Levi Eshkol Gamal Abdel Nasser Hafez al-Assad Hussein bin Talal Strength ? ? Casualties and losses 53 soldiers killed 356 soldiers killed Unknown number of Palestinian guerrillas killed (probably thousands) Template:Campaignbox Arab-Israeli conflict The retribution operations ( Hebrew : פעולות התגמול) were military operations carried out by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1950s and 1960s . These actions were in response to constant fedayeen terror attacks , when militants would infiltrated from Syria , Egypt , and Jordan into Israel and conduct guerrilla attacks against Isra…
2025 (revision 1285986441):
Military operations by Israel in response to Arab fedayeen attacks Belligerents Israel All-Palestine Palestinian fedayeen Supported by: Kingdom of Egypt (1950–1953) Egypt (1953–1958) Egypt (UAR) (1958–1970) Jordan Syria Commanders and leaders Israeli Presidents Chaim Weizmann (1948–1952) Yosef Sprinzak (1952) Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1952–1963) Kadish Luz (1963) Zalman Shazar (1963–1970) Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion (1948–1954, 1955–1963) Moshe Sharett (1954–1955) Levi Eshkol (1963–1969) Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt (1956–1970) Hafez al-Assad President of Syria (1971-2000) Hussein bin Talal King of Jordan (1952–1999) Casualties and losses 400–967 civilians and soldiers killed du…
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
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- The live article on Wikipedia
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