Can Mamdani arrest Netanyahu?
The mayor of New York emphasized that if the prime minister of the Zionist regime eers this city, he will issue an arrest order for him; But can he do it?
According to RCO News Agency, New York Mayor Zahran Mamdani emphasized that based on the arrest warra issued by the Iernational Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and since he is waed by this court on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, he will issue an arrest warra as soon as he sets foot in this city.
“Middle East Monitor” analytical base wrote in a report that despite the accusations against Netanyahu, he denied Mamdani’s statemes about the execution of his arrest warra and announced that he is still planning to travel to New York, but the question raised here is whether, from the poi of view of iernational law, the mayor of an American city has the necessary permission to detain a foreign official or not.
In the coinuation of this report, it is stated: The Iernational Criminal Court does not have a special mechanism for its implemeation and relies on the member states to execute arrest warras. In 2025, the United States imposed sanctions against the officials of the Iernational Criminal Court, which included blocking their bank accous and banning them from issuing visas in order to preve investigations io the crimes of American and Israeli officials in Afghanistan and Palestine.
Middle East Monitor also wrote: When the implemeation of the judgmes of the Iernational Criminal Court is hindered, iernational law provides an alternative mechanism and that is universal jurisdiction. This principle allows any coury to prosecute people accused of committing serious iernational crimes such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, regardless of the place where the crimes were committed or the nationality of the perpetrator, several couries including Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, France and Germany successfully used the principle of universal jurisdiction to prosecute foreign officials, including the conviction of former Gambian Ierior Minister Osman Sonko for crimes against humanity in 2024.
This analytical database coinues its report that the TRIAL Iernational organization says that people who commit major crimes such as war crimes and crimes against humanity cannot enjoy immunity due to their political position, because committing these crimes deprives them of this immunity due to the threat they pose to iernational peace and security, so the political and diplomatic immunity of Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal does not protect him from arrest. As happened in the case of General Augusto Pinochet, the former preside of Chile, who was accused of genocide, administrative deteion, murder and torture and was arrested in London in October 1998 based on an arrest warra issued in Spain and within the framework of iernational jurisdiction.
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