Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: what Wikipedia removed
A 2003 Palestinian suicide bombing of a crowded Jerusalem bus that killed dozens, many of them children, and was claimed by Hamas. The 2005 opening named it “The Jerusalem bus 2 massacre,” a suicide bombing that “killed 23 people and wounded over 130.” Today the opening drops that name entirely and calls it a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed 24; the word massacre appears nowhere in the article now. A reader today learns the death toll and that Hamas claimed responsibility, and not that Wikipedia once named the attack a massacre.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| militant | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| islamist | 0 | 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 naming of the attack as ‘the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre,’ dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16376940):
The Jerusalem bus 2 massacre was a suicide bombing in a crowded bus in Jerusalem , Israel on August 19 , 2003 , which killed 23 people and wounded over 130. Many of the victims were children.
2025 (revision 1289050317):
2003 suicide bombing in Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bombing of a crowded public bus (Egged bus No. 2) in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem took place on August 19, 2003. Twenty-four people were killed and over 130 wounded. Many of the victims were children, some of them infants. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. ^ “Remember these children” . Remember these children. April 4, 2013 . Retrieved December 26, 2013 . ^ Sciences, Russian Academy of; Sciences, National Academy of; Affairs, Policy and Global; Cooperation, Development, Security, and; Eurasia, Office for Central Europe and; States, Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United (March 26, 2009). …
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