Israel has passed a
controversial law retroactively legalising 3,800 settler homes built on private
Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Under the law the original Palestinian landowners will be
financially compensated or given alternative land.
US President Donald Trump has taken a softer stance on
Israeli settlement activity than his predecessor, Barack Obama.
The new law comes amid an escalation in settlement
activity in recent weeks.
Emboldened by what it sees as a more sympathetic US
administration, Israel has advanced plans for thousands of new homes in
settlements.
More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements
built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Palestinians say the new legislation negates peace and
their chances of creating a state.
However, Israel's attorney general has said the law is
unconstitutional and that he will not defend it in the Supreme Court.
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