‘Kill them’: NSW Health nurses who made threats against Israelis at their hospital have been identified

From The Nightly

It’s a bit hard to get a local Australian news report on this as they are mostly behind paywalls.

NSW Police have vowed to conduct a “thorough investigation” after two nurses told a Jewish social media influencer that they refuse to treat Israeli people at their hospital and would “kill them” instead.

Premier Chris Minns has since told 2GB radio this morning that “the two individuals have been identified as NSW Health workers and they’re from Bankstown Hospital”.

In the explosive Instagram video, nurses Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh — wearing hospital scrubs — spoke to popular Jewish influencer Max Veifer during their night shift on the ward.

Mr Veifer … shared he was from “the holy land” of Israel.

Mr Nadir said. . . “You’re going to get killed and you’re going to go to jahannam (hell), inshallah (God willing).

Mr Veifer asked, “Why do you think I’m gonna get killed?”

Ms Abu Lebdeh then appeared next to Mr Nadir on the call.

“It’s Palestine’s country, not your country you piece of s…,” she said. “One day your time will come and you will die the most (beeped out). “Listen to me, when your time comes I want you to remember my face so you can understand that you will die the most disgusting death.”

A gobsmacked Mr Veifer asked, “How are you doctors?”

“Alright, for sure, I have a question though. Let’s say an Israeli, God forbid…”

Ms Abu Lebdeh interrupted: “Not God forbid. I hope to God.”

Mr Veifer tried to pose the question again.

“So if an Israeli in Australia, and God forbid something happens to him, and he comes to your hospital, would you kill him?” he persisted.

Before he could finish, Ms Abu Lebdeh retorted: “I won’t treat them, I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them.”

Mr Nadir then said he would send Israeli patients at the western Sydney hospital to hell.

“You have no idea how many (Israeli people) come to this hospital … I send to Jahannam”, he said before making a throat-slitting gesture.

Mr Veifer — an influencer and Hebrew-speaking English teacher from Ashdod, Israel — recorded the conversation with the Bankstown hospital workers on Chatruletka, an app that randomly pairs users for chats around the world, on Tuesday night before sharing it to social media on Wednesday morning (Australian time).

Mr Nadir is a refugee from Afghanistan who became an Australian citizen in 2020.

Ms Abu Lebdeh is understood to have been a nurse for NSW Health for about four years.

After becoming aware of the footage this morning, Premier Minns referred the matter to NSW Police.

“Police are looking it right now,” he told 2GB. “My understanding is police are on their way to Bankstown as we speak.”

NSW Police said “a thorough investigation is underway”.

9 News Australia has got an accessible TV news report below on Your Tube; this matter lasts for the first 3 minutes then onto other news.

The TV reporter says “How do you deal with this? You throw the book at them!”

The Health Minister and Health Secretary say they will never work in the NSW healthcare again.  Passing themselves of as ‘Doctors’ when from their uniforms they are clearly nurses is in itself a disciplinary offence and beyond that the anti-semitism requires criminal  investigation.

According to The Australian the female nurse has apparently apologised; and elsewhere they are trying to pass the exchange off as ‘a joke’ An Australian reporter went to try to interview her parents and they were not in a laughing mood. I can’t get sound on the Australian’s X site but others do have sound as well as video

 

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