Sami Abu Zuhri: what Wikipedia removed
Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas spokesman, was quoted after Israel killed the two men suspected of kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teenagers in 2014. Through October 2023 the opening carried his statement that “Hamas praises the role the martyrs played in chasing down Israeli settlers.” Today the opening has been reduced to a single sentence identifying him as a Hamas spokesman; the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that Hamas’s spokesman publicly praised the killers of the three Israeli teenagers as martyrs.
The word “resistance” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| resistance | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| islamist | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| martyr | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| genocide | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| occupation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 identifying sentence naming him a Hamas spokesman survives, only reformatted.
- The quote in which Abu Zuhri praised the killers of three Israeli teenagers as martyrs is dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 333672892):
Sami Abu Zuhri (سامي أبو زهري) is a senior spokesman for the Palestinian political party Hamas . Zuhri a relatively unknown member of Hamas gained notoriety on May 19, 2006, when Palestinian security and customs officials discovered he had euro 640,000 on his person, another report claimed he held a larger sum of 900,000 euros , and confiscated it, after Zuhri droped a concealed money belt at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza . The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah paramilitary forces to the crossing checkpoint, which Zuhri refused to leave without the banknotes, which had been confiscated as contraband. Abu Zuhri told a reporter from the Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera that the …
2025 (revision 1293425667):
Palestinian politician Template:Hamas history Sami Abu Zuhri ( سامي أبو زُهْري ; born 1967) is a senior spokesman for the Palestinian organization Hamas . ^ Sami Abu Zuhri Personal Info
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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