<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>339073</docID> <postdate>2025-02-26 11:46:58</postdate> <headline>Charges laid over nurses’ anti-Israeli kill comments</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>Investigators are yet to speak to a second nurse involved in a viral video, despite his colleague being charged with making kill threats while talking to an Israeli influencer.</strong></p> <p>Sarah Abu Lebdeh - who worked at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney's southwest - was charged with three commonwealth offences, police revealed on Wednesday.</p> <p>The charges include threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.</p> <p>The 26-year-old appeared alongside colleague Ahmed Rashid Nadir in a video chat from the hospital with Israeli social media personality Max Veifer.</p> <p>The duo allegedly brag about refusing to treat Israeli patients and killing them instead.</p> <p>Officers from a police strike force investigating a spate of anti-Semitic incidents arrested Abu Lebdeh late on Tuesday, however Nadir is yet to be charged.</p> <p>NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb confirmed the male nurse was still under investigation, but police were yet to speak to him.</p> <p>Nadir was taken to hospital for assessment earlier in February after paramedics were called to his Bankstown home following a "concern for welfare" report.</p> <p>The investigation had not been straightforward due to the "jurisdictional challenges" involved due to Mr Veifer's location, Ms Webb said.</p> <p>"Given the nature of this offending - where we had two people here in NSW and the recording made overseas - it's been a complex investigation. We're talking across borders," she told ABC radio.</p> <p>There was no evidence patients at the hospital had actually been harmed, but the courts were best placed to decide the intent of the nurses' comments, Ms Webb said.</p> <p>Nadir previously told reporters the incident was a "big mistake", describing the comments as a joke gone wrong and apologising for any offence caused.</p> <p>In the back and forth with Mr Veifer, who revealed in the conversation on the Chatruletka platform that he previously served with the Israeli Defence Forces, Abu Lebdeh said: "One day, your time will come and you will die the most horrible death."</p> <p>The video drew widespread condemnation, including from the prime minister and NSW premier.</p> <p>Australia's health practitioner watchdog barred both nurses from working in the profession nationwide "in any context", while 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>