India, July 27 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on Sunday that he intends to travel to New York in September to address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.

This comes after New York mayor Zohran Mamdani recently declared that the Israeli leader is "not welcome" in the city. He also called on the US federal government to enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Netanyahu.

Netanyahu clarified his intentions of travelling to New York for the UNGA in the interview to Fox News and said, "I intend to come and speak the truth, speak for Israel and for the Israeli-American alliance from the podium of the United Nations."

The Israeli PM also dismissed the International...