Khaled Nazzal was the DFLP central committee secretary assassinated by Mossad in 1986. Through 2020 and October 6, 2023 the opening said he was 'a leader of the Ma'alot Massacre, a 1974 terrorist attack that saw 22 Israeli schoolchildren and their three teachers killed following a two-day hostage standoff.' Today's opening calls him only a 'militant leader' for the PLO and omits the massacre entirely, though terror survives eight times in the body. A reader today does not learn that he led the Ma'alot massacre, which killed 22 Israeli schoolchildren and three teachers.
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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 8.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Khaled Nazzal was the central committee secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a militant leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation . Born in Qabatiya , Jenin in 1948, he joined the Palestinian forces in 1967, and in 1971 he joined Damascus University . Nazzal was "a leader" of the Ma'alot Massacre , a 1974 terrorist attack that saw 22 Israeli schoolchildren and their three teachers killed following a two-day hostage standoff. In June 2017, a public square in Jenin was named for Nazzal, drawing sharp criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . Nazzal was married to women's rights activist Rima Nazzal . He was assassinated in Athens on 9 June 1986 by Mossad agents. "Netanyahu takes to Twitter to lambaste Abbas for 'poisoning minds of young Palestinians' " . i24NEWS. 20 June 2017 .1
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Palestinian politician (1948–1986) Khaled Nazzal (1948–1986) was the central committee secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a militant leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation . Born in Qabatiya , Jenin in 1948, he joined the Palestinian forces in 1967, and in 1971 he joined Damascus University . Nazzal was "a leader" of the Ma'alot Massacre , a 1974 terrorist attack that saw 22 Israeli schoolchildren and their three teachers killed following a two-day hostage standoff. In June 2017, a public square in Jenin was named for Nazzal, drawing sharp criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . Nazzal was married to women's rights activist Rima Nazzal . He was assassinated in Athens , Greece , on 9 June 1986 by Mossad agents.As of 2014 his sister Rehab Nazzal who is an artist was living in Canada. "Netanyahu takes to Twitter to lambaste Abbas for 'poisoning minds of young Palestinians' " . i24NEWS. 20 June 2017 .
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Palestinian politician (1948–1986) Khaled Nazzal (1948–1986) was the central committee secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a militant leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation . He was assassinated by the Mossad agents in Athens on 9 June 1986.
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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 8. Read the current article and compare.
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Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“terror” now appears 1× under Biography, 50% of the way down the article
“massacre” now appears 1× under Biography, 50% of the way down the article
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