New York City mayor calls Netanyahu ‘war criminal,’ urges US to enforce ICC arrest warrant

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” and urged the US government to enforce an arrest warrant against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) if he enters the US, Anadolu reports. “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,” Mamdani said in a video message Tuesday posted on the US social media platform X. He accused Netanyahu of being responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people, targeting hospitals, and blocking food and humanitarian aid from reaching people in need in the Gaza Strip. Mamdani said that the US bears responsibility because, he said, “we, as Americans, pay for the bombs that do the […]