Ever heard of that thing called
stonemasonry? Until WW2, that was the stuff most of cities in the Old World were made of, and the preferred material for building public buildings of all things, like, for example, hospitals...
Have you ever been to any European City or Jerusalem? Of all places the Middle East is the part of the world where its advanced forms are the most ancient...
Beside, I just so happen to be working in civil engineering, designing the likes of roads, water/sewer nerworks, concrete bridges, retaining walls and building structures in a concrete obsessed country.
You'll excuse me for not being a normie drone, but one curious of Architectural Heritage since childood. Add to that having directly enjoyed the benefits of earth architecture on my previous mapping work in an area of Subsharan Africa with a very similar climate.
I guess this is an understandable opinion given the now old modernist and productivist mainstream pushing away those old-fashioned, labor intensive yet perfectly adapted to the local climate forms. One would expect labor intensivity being less of a constraint in an area with massive youth unemployment.
But you know what? After various individuals, Architects and
NGOs experimented with the stuff, now
Hamas is supporting mudbrick construction, tunnel digging even providing an abundance of raw material.