The Knesset overnight approved in its second and third readings a bill to prohibit the police from using skunk spray at protests.

Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and the ministry’s legal team. MKs from across the political spectrum-coalition and opposition-joined the bill, and it passed 11-O.

The law regulates, for the first time, the use of water cannons to disperse protests, conditioning their use on clean water only, without the addition of any substances, including dye, odor agents (skunk) etc..

The bill also requires the police to video every use of water cannons and to retain the footage for at least one year. The footage will be made available to any citizen who claims to have been harmed by its use and seeks to pursue legal action against the police.