New York City mayor slams 'lies' in Netanyahu's UN speech, cites ICC warrant for his arrest
Israeli Premier Netanyahu 'used his speech to repeat
baseless lies meant to sanitize his genocide of Palestinians,' says Zohran
Mamdani
Diyar Güldoğan
24 September 2026
WASHINGTON DC
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday hit
back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's criticisms in his UN
General Assembly address, pointing to the international warrant seeking the
visiting prime minister’s arrest.
Netanyahu’s “lies” in his UN address cannot erase the
warrant for genocidal war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court
(ICC), said the mayor.
“As he has done time and again, Prime Minister
Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitize his
genocide of Palestinians," Mamdani said in a statement, local media
reported.
"Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains
the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war
crimes and crimes against humanity.”
In November 2024 the ICC, based in The Hague, issued
arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
This July, Mamdani urged US federal authorities to
enforce the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu, acknowledging that New York City
authorities lack the legal power to carry it out.
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