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Beit Lahia
Beit Lahia is a city in the Gaza Strip near Beit Hanoun. Through 2015 the opening reported that Hamas, an Islamist party, took control of it during the 2005 municipal elections. Today the opening is a bare geography and population description with no mention of Hamas or the elections, and Islamist is nowhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that Hamas took control of Beit Lahia in 2005 or that Wikipedia described it as an Islamist party.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Beit Lahia ( ) is a city located north of Jabalia , near Beit Hanoun and the 1949 Armistice Line with Israel .1 According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the city had a population of 59,540 in mid-year 2006.2 Hamas , an Islamist party, took control of it during the 2005 municipal elections .3
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Today
“islamist” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included. Read the current article and compare.
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| islamist | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
palestinian village of about 40
Now
city in the gaza strip
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