New York, July 28 -- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said that he was "not interested in getting into a back-and-forth" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after being asked about the Israeli leader's criticism of his past calls regarding the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to Fox News.

Speaking during an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn on Monday (local time), Mamdani was asked to respond to Netanyahu's comments on Fox News, in which the Israeli prime minister reportedly accused him of "fomenting hate" in the context of an Upper West Side attack being investigated as a suspected hate crime.

"I'm not interested in getting into a back-and-forth with Prime Minister Netanyahu," Mamdani said.

"What I w...