In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian terror attack in which an israeli man”. Today it says “stabbed”.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Palestinian attack on an Israeli settler in the West Bank The 2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing occurred on 30 April, in which an armed Israeli settler , Evyatar Borovsky, was stabbed, disarmed and then, according to some witnesses, shot with his own weapon at a bus stop in the northern West Bank by a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem. The Israeli police described the attacker as a "Palestinian terrorist". The perpetrator was identified as Salam As'ad Zaghal, who had recently been released from 3.5 years in jail for planting explosives. The stabbing was praised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas 's Fatah party, its military wing, and its Islamist offshoot the Palestinian Mujahideen movement, and by Zaghal's family. Jewish settlers in the West Bank waged a series of violent reprisal attacks against Palestinian targets in the West Bank, and an Israeli outpost was later named in the victim's honor. The Times of Israel . "Settlers retaliate after West Bank stabbing death" , Times of Israel , 30 April 2013.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The 30 April 2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing was a Palestinian terror attack in which an Israeli man, Evyatar Borovsky, was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the northern West Bank . The perpetrator was identified as a Palestinian man named Salam As'ad Zaghal. The stabbing was praised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas 's Fatah party, its military wing, and its Islamist offshoot the Palestinian Mujahideen movement, and by Zaghal's family. Arab-Israeli man stabbed, injured in Jerusalem , Jerusalem Post, 30 April 2013. "Settlers retaliate after West Bank stabbing death" , Times of Israel , 30 April 2013.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
The 2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing was a Palestinian terror attack occurred on 30 April in which an Israeli man, Evyatar Borovsky, was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the northern West Bank . The perpetrator was identified as a Palestinian man named Salam As'ad Zaghal. The stabbing was praised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas 's Fatah party, its military wing, and its Islamist offshoot the Palestinian Mujahideen movement, and by Zaghal's family. Arab-Israeli man stabbed, injured in Jerusalem , Jerusalem Post, 30 April 2013. "Settlers retaliate after West Bank stabbing death" , Times of Israel , 30 April 2013.
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palestinian terror attack in which an israeli man
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