New York
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a new video Tuesday that he doesn’t have the authorized authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he had been to come to New York City.
In a video posted on X, Mamdani mentioned, “My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant.”
The publish comes simply days after Mamdani mentioned in an interview with The New York Times that he was working together with his administration’s authorized crew on how to execute the arrest of Netanyahu for his “alleged war crimes.”
President Donald Trump weighed in on the controversy on Truth Social Monday, saying Netanyahu “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form.”
Netanyahu might go to New York later this 12 months to attend the United Nations’ basic meeting. His workplace beforehand accused Mamdani of “diverting public attention from his follies and attacking the leader of the Jewish state and the only democracy in the Middle East.”