Temporary International Presence in Hebron: what Wikipedia removed

TIPH was a civilian observer mission in Hebron established in 1994 with the agreement of both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. The opening once explained TIPH was created “after the 1994 Hebron massacre in which 29 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli settler,” which prompted the UN Security Council to call for it. That explanation is gone from the opening, though the word survives twice elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that TIPH’s mission traces to the 1994 Hebron massacre, in which an Israeli settler killed 29 Palestinians.

The word “occupation” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2005 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/temporary-international-presence-in-hebron.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2005	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
occupation	1	0	0	0	0	0
massacre	1	0	0	0	0	0

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

What was taken out

• The opening’s description of TIPH as a group of civilians was reworded without changing its meaning.
• Denmark was dropped from the list of countries that once staffed the mission.
• The explanation that TIPH was created after the 1994 Hebron massacre, in which 29 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli settler, is gone.
• The mission’s original May 8, 1994 start date, and a clause about Palestinian objections, are gone.

How it opened then, and now

2005 (revision 16168320):

Temporary International Presence in Hebron or TIPH is a group of civilians observing the situation in the West Bank city of Hebron . It is staffed by personnel from Denmark , Italy , Norway , Sweden , Switzerland and Turkey . Its main task is to “assist in monitoring and reporting the efforts to maintain normal life in the City of Hebron, thus creating a feeling of security among Palestinians in the City of Hebron.” [1] After the 1994 Hebron massacre in which 29 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli settlers the UN Security Council called for an international presence in Hebron. The first TIPH mission began on 8 May, 1994. However the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government could n…

2025 (revision 1247263659):

TIPH observers in Hebron, August 2015 Temporary International Presence in Hebron or TIPH was a civilian observer mission in the West Bank city of Hebron established in 1994. Both the Israeli Government and Palestinian Authority called for its creation. It “monitor[ed] the situation in Hebron and record[ed] breaches of international humanitarian law, the agreements on Hebron between Israel and the Palestinian authority and human rights, in accordance with internationally recognized standards”. It also monitored Israeli settlers, and aimed to help the Arab Palestinians who currently live there. It was staffed by personnel from Italy , Norway , Sweden , Switzerland and Turkey . In 2019, the Isr…

Related

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• The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
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