Can the definite integral of zero valued function be non-zero?

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I am trying to understand the Importance Sampling Technique (IS) for rare event simulation. I use the this tutorial. On page 5, it is written:

"...That is, let g be another probability density such that $g(x) = 0$ $\rightarrow I_{{S(x)\geq 0 }}f(x) = 0 $ "

Moreover, for simplicity I attach the capture from the above tutorial.