“After turning the Turkish flank at Beersheba, Allenby and his men concentrated their attention on the ancient capital of the land of the Philistines, the city of Gaza over here on the seacoast. Gaza, although on the Mediterranean has no harbor, so all of the supplies were landed in these small boats through the surf. It was along this same beach, you will recall, that Samson used to stroll in the moonlight with his mighty arm around his sweetheart Delilah…”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)