How did the pharaohs of Egypt take over Phoenicia?

The extension of Egypt into the Middle East did not reach that far as it was halted by the southward move of the Hittites. The inconclusive battle of Megiddo in 1482 BCE, claimed as a victory for Egypt's Thutmose III, nevertheless drew a line beyond which Egypt was unable to establish permanent control of Phoenicia, whose independent city-states continued on for nearly another thousand years until brought under control of the Assyrian, then Persian empires.