The British in World War I stationed in Israel liked to drink:
Israeli archaeologists have found hundreds of glass bottles at the site of a First World War British army barracks.
The remains of the drinking session were found during excavations for a new road near the central city of Ramle, where soldiers under the command of Field Marshal Edmund Allenby were garrisoned in 1917.
The camp, based around a tall building, was occupied for about nine months from November 1917 during a pause in the campaign against the Turkish army in Palestine. source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340974/Archaeologists-haul-liquor-bottles-Army-base.html
Ramle is a disputed name of the location (Ramla is probably the correct name). The Arabic pronunciation means “sand” whereas the original Hebrew pronunciation means “The Exaltation of the Holy Name.”
Maybe all the alcohol waste was a kind of British soldier pagan God appeasement done without anyone knowing that was what they were doing. If so, then the place named for “Exaltation of the Holy Name” was being abused such that the area became more consistent with the appellation of “sand”–which usually means desert or barrenness. The spiritual conditions of war naturally present themselves to desolation. Does finding all these bottles and hauling them out of the location mean The Name is being restored? One can hope.