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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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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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What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2005, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

palestinian village of about 40

Now

city in the gaza strip

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