U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed the possibility that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be arrested in New York, after the city's mayor said he was studying that option.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant in 2024 against Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for Israel's offensive in Gaza, which began after Hamas's attacks on October 7, 2023.

"He will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while he is in the United States of America," Trump asserted on social media. "He is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently stated that he is consulting with the city's legal team on whether he has the authority to order the New York Police Department to detain a foreign leader.

Netanyahu is expected to be in New York for the U.N. General Assembly in September.

"I believe Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague," Mamdani told The New York Times on Saturday. "He is a war criminal."

Netanyahu's office responded by criticizing Mamdani, as well as the international court in The Hague, and asserted that the ICC has no jurisdiction in either the United States or Israel.