<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>339073</docID> <postdate>2025-02-26 08:58:58</postdate> <headline>Nurse charged over viral anti-Israeli video</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-338205" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ansemitism-nurses-2-resized-e1739397068213.jpg" alt="" width="843" height="562" /></p> <caption>Banned nurses Ahmed Rashid Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh. Photo: TikTok</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <strong>Farid Farid</strong> in Sydney</span></p> <p><strong>A public hospital nurse who allegedly threatened to kill Israeli patients in a viral video posted by an Israeli influencer has been charged with three offences.</strong></p> <p>Sarah Abu Lebdeh, who worked at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney's southwest, was charged with three commonwealth offences including threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace/harass/offend.</p> <p>In the video posted by Max Veifer, she appears alongside her colleague Ahmed Rashid Nadir, both allegedly claiming they won't treat Israelis and boasting of sending them to hell.</p> <p>Strike Force Pearl investigators arrested and charged Abu Lebdeh late on Tuesday but no charges have yet been laid against Ahmed Rashid Nadir.</p> <p>NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said 14 people had been arrested so far under the operation targeting antisemitism, including 26-year-old Abu Lebdeh, and a total of 76 charges had been laid by the strike force.</p> <p>"These charges have been laid following a lot of hard work and legal advice, received yesterday from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions," she said on Wednesday.</p> <p>"Detectives have overcome obstacles and jurisdictional challenges to get where we are today."</p> <p>In the back and forth with Mr Veifer, a former soldier who reveals in the video he served with the Israeli Defence Forces, Abu Lebdeh threatens him.</p> <p>"One day, your time will come and you will die the most horrible death," she says on the video.</p> <p>Reaction was swift to the video with widespread condemnation, including from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns.</p> <p>Australia's health practitioner watchdog barred both nurses from working in the profession nationwide "in any context".</p> <p>The pair have also had their registrations suspended by the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council.</p> <p>Abu Lebdeh was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in court in March.</p> </body>