New York City Mayor announced Wednesday that he has no legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“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 we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” Mamdani said.
The announcement comes just four days after he said in an interview with New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro that the city’s legal team was looking into arresting the Prime Minister when he attends the United Nations General Assembly in September.
Mamdani begins his remarks by calling the prime minister a war criminal, saying he is “the architect of a horrific genocide on the Palestinian people.”
