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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should face charges at the International Criminal Court. (NYC Mayor’s Office via YouTube\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called on the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he should be tried for war crimes under a 2024 warrant by the International Criminal Court.<\/p>

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In a video posted on X Tuesday<\/a>, Mamdani described Netanyahu as the \u201carchitect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people\u201d for his role in the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The New York mayor said his administration reviewed \u201cevery avenue available\u201d under to the law to determine whether New York authorities have the power to execute an arrest warrant if Netanyahu travels there, but \u201cit is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant,\u201d he said, adding that Netanyahu is \u201cnot welcome\u201d in New York City.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s opposition to Netanyahu comes despite criticism from some Democrats<\/a> after he said last week that he was in \u201cactive conversation<\/a>\u201d with his legal department to determine whether the Israeli leader could be arrested. Netanyahu is expected to travel to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump shut down the idea of Netanyahu\u2019s arrest in a Monday post on Truth Social<\/a>, saying he \u201cwill not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in 2024<\/a>, accusing him and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza. The court\u2019s decision obliges 124 countries to arrest the Netanyahu if he enters their territory, but neither Israel nor the United States is signatory to the court\u2019s key statute that requires this.<\/p>

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Netanyahu has rejected the allegations, calling them absurd, and accused the court of being a biased and discriminatory political body. On Tuesday his office<\/a> described the ICC as a \u201ckangaroo court that has no jurisdiction over Americans or Israelis\u201d and the arrest warrant as \u201cbogus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s leadership, Israel has taken unprecedented wartime measures to minimize harm to civilians while confronting Hamas,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, also hit back at Mamdani\u2019s comments. \u201cZohran Mamdani, ENOUGH,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cEnough with the attacks on Jewish organizations. Enough with the outreach to the Iranian regime. You were elected to serve New Yorkers, not Hamas\u2019 propaganda. Do your job!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden<\/a> have criticized the ICC for the warrant. Both administrations have supported Netanyahu during the war in Gaza, which Israel launched after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel by Hamas militants who killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostage.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s retaliatory strikes have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but says the majority of casualties are women and children.<\/p>

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Lior Soroka in Tel Aviv contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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