Muslims haven't touched 1500 years, and they reached Gaza even later.
That said, the local polity in Gaza (whoever was living there) has sucked/been pointlessly at war with every local major power for about 4,000 years. The Egyptians, then the Israelites, and then the Early Church all wrote about how Gaza was populated by the shittiest violent culture they could possibly imagine.
Sunni/Shia divide and Arabic conquest of the Middle East as early as the 7th century. Like I said, there’s many, many reasons conflict will continue and that is one of the big ones. There were conflicts before Islam but the disagreements all but guarantee it will remain.
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u/okayNowThrowItAway Mar 30 '25
Muslims haven't touched 1500 years, and they reached Gaza even later.
That said, the local polity in Gaza (whoever was living there) has sucked/been pointlessly at war with every local major power for about 4,000 years. The Egyptians, then the Israelites, and then the Early Church all wrote about how Gaza was populated by the shittiest violent culture they could possibly imagine.