In 2017, until October over 353 Palestinian buildings were demolished in the West Bank and over 528 people were displaced.
Jeff Helper, Director of Israeli Committee Against House demolitions argues that the Matrix of Control which Israel has laid over the Occupied Territory has effectively eliminated the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and produced instead a regime of apartheid. Faced with apartheid and the warehousing of the Palestinians, he goes on to outline to what appears to be the only just solution remaining: a democratic, bi-national state which he explores in depth.