The Israelites did fear the philistines as they had a giant of a soldier called Goliath, who realy scared them.
The Israelites of the Exodus from Egypt could not have travelled through Philistia because the Philistines did not even begin to arrive in the Levant until 1185 BCE, whereas there is an Egyptian record of Israelites already being in the hinterland by 1205 BCE.
The Israelites believed a king would help them unite themselves against their enemy, the Philistines.
The Bible refer to the Land of Israel mostly as Land of Canaan and Land of Israelites, But never as Palestine. The origin of the name Palestine is at the 5th century BC, when Herodotus called it that way, after the ancient people of Philistines, which are mentioned in the Bible.
Ask for a king.
Philistines captured the ark from the Israelites in 1 Samuel chapter 5
King Saul.
It was occupied by the Philistines.
In the year of 1769, King Jason Sonas (son of the great lord, King Arthur) and the Philistines were intruded by the Romans. This led to the Philistines and King Jason Sonas to flee from their home land by boats and by feet. The Philistines spread all over the world and the Romans ruled the land of the Philistines. The Philistines that were left there, were being brought to be slaves for the Romans and lived in very poor conditions.
Goliath was not a servant of God. he was from the tribe of the Philistines. The Philistines went collecting their camps together to wage war against the Israelites. The Philistines were on one side of the mountain and the Israelites on the other. A champion came forward from the Philistines and his name was Goliath. He was a very large, tall man that wore heavy armor. and he wanted to engage in warfare with the Israelites, because he knew how powerful he was . The israelites were God's chosen people. so certainly God would not have any sort of relationship with Goliath, except in determining who was going to take care of this monsterous man. David was no match for Goliath, however, he accepted the challenge and rejected the armor. His statement was"Jehovah will deliver me."
God raised up Samson from the womb as a Nazirite to begin the deliverance of Israel from the Philistines. It was only a beginning as the Israelites and the Philistines fought for many years. God gave Samson great physical strength to fight against the Philistines and he alone killed thousands.
The Philistines took advantage of early Israelite disunity by waging attacks and raids on Israelite villages. This pillaging was quite common until the Israelites formed a United Kingdom and actively engaged the Philistines in war. After that point, the Philistines were more of a nuisance than an actual problem. It was the Assyrians who eventually conquered Israel, not the Philistines.