Trump assures that Netanyahu will not be detained “under any circumstances or circumstances” on US soil

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Monday that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “will not be arrested under any circumstances” while he is on American soil during his scheduled visit to the United Nations General Assembly in September.

“Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested under any circumstances or circumstances while he is in the United States. He is a leader who is fighting the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which 52,000 innocent protesters have recently been killed and who has spent the last 47 years killing US military personnel and others,” he indicated on social media.

The White House resident has thus pointed out that “the only ones who should be arrested are those who have led Iran into this spiral of unprecedented death and destruction”, an issue that “should have been addressed years ago by previous presidents.”

Trump thus responds to the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, who stated in an interview with the newspaper ‘The New York Times’ that he intends to do everything that “the law of the city of New York allows” to stop Netanyahu if he sets foot in the city.

Mamdani – who stated that this issue is being “discussed” by his legal advisors – described the Israeli prime minister as a “war criminal” for being indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a result of “his actions during these years” against the Gaza Strip.

For its part, the Israeli Government accused Mamdani of inciting hatred and “failing” in his responsibilities as mayor of New York, in the words of Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, who has guaranteed that Netanyahu will attend the UN General Assembly in September and return to Israel without anyone being able to prevent him.

Netanyahu is under an arrest warrant from the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity due to the Israeli Army’s offensive against Gaza. The United States and Israel are not part of the court nor do they recognize the validity of its decisions, although the fact that a country does not recognize its jurisdiction does not mean that individuals of that nationality or related people cannot be charged or investigated.

Pro-Palestinian non-governmental organizations, such as the Hind Rajab Foundation, argue that the United States has partially incorporated the crimes established in the Rome Statute, the foundation of the international court, into its national laws and is a party to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that State Parties “shall have the obligation to search for persons allegedly responsible for having committed, or having ordered the commission of, such serious violations, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before their own courts.”