New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reacted to the Gaza peace deal, which saw the release of 20 living Israeli hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates, and called it "profoundly moving". "We must work towards...future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid," he said. Mamdani was recently accused of being "anti-Semite" by an angry protester in New York.