In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “short form title of a documentary film produced by joan mandell”. Today it says “documentary film about the life of a palestinian family living in the jabalia refugee camp”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2015 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2015
Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Family, 1948 – 1984 is a documentary film about the life of a Palestinian family living in the Jabalia refugee camp . The film, created by Joan Mandell, Pea Holmquist, and Pierre Bjorklund in 1984 is believed to be the first documentary ever made in Gaza. The film features Ariel Sharon , Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss[ing] their responsibilities." In his book, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking , Hamid Naficy describes the film as an "early important film" on the Palestinian refugee situation. The film follows a refugee family from the Gaza Strip who visit the site of their former village , now a Jewish town in Israel . As the grandfather and great-grandfather point out an orchard and sycamore fig that belonged to Muhammed Ayyub and Uncle Khalil, an Israeli resident appears and tells them to leave, claiming they need a permit to be there. The mother tells him that, "We work in Jaffa and Tel Aviv and that's not forbidden," to which he replies, "Here it's forbidden." Ted Swedenburg mentions his scene in Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past : "While chasing the refugee family off, he asserts forcibly that the site is his home." "Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family" .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 668754084.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Gaza Ghetto is the short form title of a documentary film produced by Joan Mandell , Pea Holmquist , and Pierre Bjorklund in 1984 about the life of a Palestinian family living in the Jabalia refugee camp . Reportedly the first documentary ever to be made in Gaza, the movie features Ariel Sharon , Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss[ing] their responsibilities." "Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family" .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 361282352.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Family, 1948 – 1984 is a documentary film about the life of a Palestinian family living in the Jabalia refugee camp . The film, created by Joan Mandell, Pea Holmquist, and Pierre Bjorklund in 1984 is believed to be the first documentary ever made in Gaza. The film features Ariel Sharon , Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss[ing] their responsibilities." In his book, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking , Hamid Naficy describes the film as an "early important film" on the Palestinian refugee situation. The film follows a refugee family from the Gaza Strip who visit the site of their former village , now a Jewish town in Israel . As the grandfather and great-grandfather point out an orchard and sycamore fig that belonged to Muhammed Ayyub and Uncle Khalil, an Israeli resident appears and tells them to leave, claiming they need a permit to be there. The mother tells him that, "We work in Jaffa and Tel Aviv and that's not forbidden," to which he replies, "Here it's forbidden." Ted Swedenburg mentions his scene in Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past : "While chasing the refugee family off, he asserts forcibly that the site is his home." An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 848930174.
The opening as it stood in 2025
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Family, 1948 – 1984 is a documentary film about the life of a Palestinian family living in the Jabalia refugee camp . The film, created by Joan Mandell, Pea Holmquist, and Pierre Bjorklund in 1984 is believed to be the first documentary ever made in Gaza. The film features Ariel Sharon , Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss[ing] their responsibilities." In his book, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking , Hamid Naficy describes the film as an "early important film" on the Palestinian refugee situation. The film follows a refugee family from the Gaza Strip who visit the site of their former village , now a Jewish town in Israel . As the grandfather and great-grandfather point out an orchard and sycamore fig that belonged to Muhammed Ayyub and Uncle Khalil, an Israeli resident appears and tells them to leave, claiming they need a permit to be there. The mother tells him that, "We work in Jaffa and Tel Aviv and that's not forbidden," to which he replies, "Here it's forbidden." Ted Swedenburg mentions his scene in Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past : "While chasing the refugee family off, he asserts forcibly that the site is his home." An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1282398668. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “short form title of a documentary film produced by joan mandell”. Today it says “documentary film about the life of a palestinian family living in the jabalia refugee camp”. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
short form title of a documentary film produced by joan mandell
Now
documentary film about the life of a palestinian family living in the jabalia refugee camp
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
