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Abdullah Badran

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian suicide bomber who killed 4 civilians and injured 50 when he blew himself up at the entrance to "st”. Today it says “redirect from a page that was merged into another page”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian suicide bomber who killed 4 civilians and injured 50 when he blew himself up at the entrance to "st”. Today it says “redirect from a page that was merged into another page”.
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The opening as it read in 2005

Abdullah Badran was a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 4 civilians and injured 50 when he blew himself up at the entrance to "Stage", a popular Tel Aviv nightclub, on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets, opposite the beachfront.1 One of the three male victims was identified as Yitzhak Bozaglo, 40, from the Upper Galilee moshav of Mishmar Hayarden. The fourth victim was a woman.2 Badran was a university student from the village of Deir al-Ghusun near the West Bank town of Tul Karm . His parents said he was a devout Muslim , but had no history of militant activity. v t e3

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In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian suicide bomber who killed 4 civilians and injured 50 when he blew himself up at the entrance to "st”. Today it says “redirect from a page that was merged into another page”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

palestinian suicide bomber who killed 4 civilians and injured 50 when he blew himself up at the entrance to "st

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redirect from a page that was merged into another page

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