Israel's Knesset has passed a controversial new law that retroactively legalises thousands of homes built on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The regulation bill "applies to around 4,000 homes for which settlers could prove ignorance that they had built on privately owned land and had received encouragement from the Israeli state to do so", Al Jazeera reports.
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