issued an arrest warrant<\/a> for Netanyahu in 2024, charging him with committing war crimes during Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,\u201d Mamdani added, saying that his view is shared by many, given the actions the Israeli PM has \u201cwrought over these last many years\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Mamdani said his administration is still considering whether to arrest Netanyahu should he attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September [Olga Fedorova\/EPA]<\/p>\n
Mamdani said he remains uncertain whether he has the legal authority to direct the police department, which he oversees, to detain a foreign leader and that he is in \u201can active conversation\u201d with the city\u2019s Law Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that\u2019s what we will do, but we won\u2019t be writing our own laws to that end,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
During his mayoral campaign, Mamdani warned that he would order police to arrest Netanyahu if he set foot in the city, framing it as enforcement of the ICC warrant.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu typically travels to New York each September for the UN gathering.<\/p>\n
Posting on X, Israel dismissed Mamdani\u2019s remarks, calling the ICC a \u201ckangaroo court\u201d and its warrant \u201cbogus\u201d, while accusing him of trying to divert attention from his own troubles.<\/p>\n
The ICC, established in 2002 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, has jurisdiction which Israel rejects; neither Israel nor the United States is a member of the court.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has launched a campaign<\/a> to try to disable the ICC, imposing sanctions on judges, prosecutors and groups that seek rulings against Israel over allegations of human rights violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president insists Netanyahu will not be arrested, despite ICC warrant. Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,43,44,41,39,42,40,772,1690],"class_list":["post-815601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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