French President Emmanuel Macron calls on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to drop the West Bank's annexation plans.

According to him, this would violate international law and jeopardize long-term peace efforts, Al Jazeera reported.

The French leader called on Netanyahu to urge him to refrain from taking any measures to annex the Palestinian territories, the French president's office reported.

Macron "emphasised that such a move would contravene international law and jeopardise the possibility of a two-state solution as the basis of a fair and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians".