4000-year old culture? This area has been controlled by more different groups in the last 4000 years than the average person has had sexual partners.

Let's use The Great Mosque of Gaza as an example.

It used to be a Christian basilica for a couple hundred years until the Muslim's conquerored the area in the 7th century and built a mosque, but before the basilica it was a Philistine temple for an unknown period of time.

Then the Christian's recaptured it in the 12th century.

Then Muslims destroyed it and built a new mosque in the 13th century.

Then the mongols destroyed it, and it was rebuilt. Then an earthquake destroyed it, and it was rebuilt.

Then it got damaged a few more times and was rebuilt by the Byzantines.

Then it got taken by Israel, until Egypt invaded and formed Gaza when they got mostly pushed out.

The history in this area is war, shit getting knocked down, and rebuilding.

Israel is just adding to the history, not destroying it.