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Thanks to phylogenetics, originally the Phoenicians plotted with Minoans (now partly Greeks and south Italians), Sardinians (who've remained the same as always with minimal admixture from other Europeans) and Sicilians (who've received an increase in Greek proportions to their local gene pool).
One leading hypothesis for their movements is the Sea Peoples hypothesis, which could also be referred to as the first conspiracy of pirates engaging in con-piracy, whereby these Sardinian, Lycian, Greek and Sicilian pirates in the 1200 BCE - 900 BCE period settled in Phoenicia under instruction by Ramses II.
But we thought Phoenicians were Semites? They incorporated some influences from Semites in the Chalcolithic period, such as Babylonian infusions and Akkadian infusions.
Ramses II made a treaty and had some of them settle in Phoenicia. They splintered into two factions during the neo-Assyrian expansions. The two topographies were later on named Kingdoms of Judea/Judah and Israel.
If you look at datapoints from the Classical and Hellenistic period you find Natufian admixture being lower than it was in the geometric and archaid periods. Whereas Khiamian and West Asian admixture is higher.
Therefore, the leading hypothesis is that the Phoenicians originally came from an INFLOW of people OUT of Sardinia, Sicily and Greece rather than out of Phoenicia.
The evidence for the Sea Peoples invasions and subsequent settlement in Phoenicia come from Egyptian inscriptions and tablets by Ramesses II, Merneptah, Ramesses III and Onomasticon of Amenope.
The tribes that are identified for settling in Phoenicia in 1060 BCE are:
Denyen, Ekwesh, Peleset, Teres, Tjeker, Weshesh = Minoan
Shekelesh = Sicels/Sicani (Sicels and Sicani are thought to be of the same tribe who just arrived in Sicily via Iberia and Italy one after the other) = Sicilians
Sherden = Sardinians
Lukka = Lycians
