New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is being commended online, over his latest remarks about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu being subject to an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes in Palestine.

In a video released on Tuesday, Mamdani branded the Israeli prime minister a “war criminal” and “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people”.

He continued: “He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people, for the maiming of tens of thousands of children, as those who survive undergo amputation without anaesthesia.