The 2004 IDF outpost bombing attack killed five Bedouin IDF soldiers at a border outpost between Gaza and Egypt. Through 2015 the opening called it an integrated terrorist attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad. Today the same sentence calls it an integrated attack, and the word terrorist is gone from the opening's description of the attack, though terror survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns who carried out the attack and not that the opening's own words once classified it as a terrorist attack.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2.
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The opening as it read in 2015
IDF outpost bombing attack was an integrated terrorist attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas and the Fatah Hawks (a military wing of Fatah ) at an IDF outpost located on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt . Five Bedouin IDF soldiers from the Desert Patrol Battalion were killed in the attack and six others were injured, and the outpost was totally destroyed. Two Palestinian militants were also killed during the attack.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
The 2004 IDF outpost bombing attack was an integrated attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas and the Fatah Hawks (a military wing of Fatah ) at an Israel Defense Forces outpost located on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt . Five Bedouin IDF soldiers from the Desert Patrol Battalion were killed in the attack and six others were injured, and the outpost was totally destroyed. Two Palestinian militants were also killed during the attack.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Attack on the border checkpoint in Rafah The 2004 IDF outpost bombing attack was an integrated attack carried out on 12 December 2004 by a Palestinian militant squad of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas and the Fatah Hawks (a military wing of Fatah ) at an Israel Defense Forces outpost located on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt . Five Bedouin IDF soldiers from the Desert Patrol Battalion were killed in the attack and six others were injured, and the outpost was destroyed. Two Palestinian militants were also killed during the attack.
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Today
“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
integrated terrorist attack carried out on 12 december 2004 by a palestinian militant squad of the izz al-din a
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integrated attack carried out on 12 december 2004 by a palestinian militant squad of the izz al-din al-qassam m
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