In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “raid carried out by a squad of five palestinian militants”. Today it says “raid carried out by a squad of five palestinian militants belonging to the iraqi-backed arab liberation front m”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Misgav Am hostage crisis , which began during the night of April 7, 1980, was a raid carried out by a squad of five Palestinian militants belonging to the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front militant organization, on the northern Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am in which the militants captured a group of toddlers and babies in the children's sleeping quarters of the kibbutz and held them as hostages. The event ended the next day with the takeover of the terrorist stronghold by Israeli special forces. During the incident three Israelis were killed: a two-year-old, and a 38-year-old kibbutz member were murdered, and one Israeli soldier died in a rescue attempt. Four other children, a kibbutz member, and 11 Israeli soldiers were injured during the attack. Note: other reports of this attack against an unarmed nursery school, the taking off children as hostages, and the subsequent murder of children and teachers, as a terrorist event and its perpetrators as terrorists, not "militants".1
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The Misgav Am hostage crisis , which began during the night of April 7, 1980, was a raid carried out by a squad of five Palestinian militants , belonging to the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front militant organization, on the northern Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am in which the militants captured a group of toddlers and babies at the children's dormitory of the kibbutz and held them as hostages. The event ended the next day with the takeover of the terrorist stronghold by Israeli special forces. During the incident three Israelis were killed – a two-year-old toddler and a 38-year-old kibbutz member were murdered and one Israeli soldier fell in the rescue attempt. Four other children, a kibbutz member and 11 Israeli soldiers were injured during the attack.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
The Misgav Am hostage crisis , which began during the night of April 7, 1980, was a raid carried out by a squad of five Palestinian militants belonging to the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front militant organization, on the northern Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am in which the militants captured a group of toddlers and babies in the children's sleeping quarters of the kibbutz and held them as hostages. The event ended the next day with the takeover of the terrorist stronghold by Israeli special forces. During the incident three Israelis were killed: a two-year-old, and a 38-year-old kibbutz member were murdered, and one Israeli soldier died in a rescue attempt. Four other children, a kibbutz member, and 11 Israeli soldiers were injured during the attack.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1110771445.
The opening as it stood in 2025
The Misgav Am hostage crisis , which began during the night of April 7, 1980, was a raid carried out by a squad of five Palestinian militants belonging to the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front militant organization, on the northern Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am in which the militants captured a group of toddlers and babies in the children's sleeping quarters of the kibbutz and held them as hostages. The event ended the next day with the takeover of the terrorist stronghold by Israeli special forces. During the incident three Israelis were killed: a two-year-old, and a 38-year-old kibbutz member were murdered, and one Israeli soldier died in a rescue attempt. Four other children, a kibbutz member, and 11 Israeli soldiers were injured during the attack.
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “raid carried out by a squad of five palestinian militants”. Today it says “raid carried out by a squad of five palestinian militants belonging to the iraqi-backed arab liberation front m”. Read the current article and compare.
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raid carried out by a squad of five palestinian militants
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raid carried out by a squad of five palestinian militants belonging to the iraqi-backed arab liberation front m
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