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Wafa Idris: what Wikipedia removed

The first female Palestinian suicide bomber. Her opening once carried the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claim of responsibility. Martyr and jihad each ran at 3 mentions and both are 0 today.

The word “martyr” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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martyr300000
terror100000
jihad300000

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

What was taken out

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  • Her name variants and the opening description were rewritten.
  • Her biography at the time of the bombing, removed from the opening.
  • The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claim of responsibility, and the question of her affiliation, removed.

Who made the cuts

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Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 362783735):

Wafa Idris Wafa Idris (a.k.a. Wafa Idrees, Shahanaz Al-Amouri, Shnaz Amuri, Arabic وفاء إدريس) was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . At the time of her death, Idris was a 28 year old, divorced Red Crescent paramedic. She lived in the Am’ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah . Idris detonated a 22-pound bomb in the center of Jerusalem outside a shoe store on Jaffa Road that killed her, an 81 year old Israeli man and injured more than 100 others. The attack took place on 27 January, 2002. Idris carried the bomb in a backpack, rather than strapped to her body. Since, prior to this attack, women had only helped plant bombs, the use of a backpack and the lack of the usu…

2026 (revision 1362786634):

Palestinian suicide bomber Wafa Idris ( Arabic : وفاء إدريس 1975 – January 27, 2002), a Palestinian Red Crescent volunteer, was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . She killed herself while committing the Jaffa Street bombing during the Second Intifada . At the time of her suicide, Idris was a 28-year-old divorcee and lived in the Am’ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah . ^ Cite error: The named reference hasso was invoked but never defined (see the help page ).

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