<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>340666</docID> <postdate>2025-03-19 12:16:13</postdate> <headline>Nurse wants alleged Israeli threat video tossed out</headline> <body><p><img class=" wp-image-340667" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250319191381229924-original-1-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /></p> <caption>Sarah Abu Lebdeh (centre, pale scarf) was surrounded by supporters as she left court. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <b>Luke Costin </b>and <b>Jack Gramenz</b> </span></p> <p><strong>Key evidence allegedly showing two former nurses discussing killing Israeli patients will face a legal challenge, threatening their prosecution.</strong></p> <p>Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir sparked outrage after a video posted on social media by Israeli social media personality Max Veifer showed them saying they would refuse to treat Israelis and kill them instead.</p> <p>The pair were working at southwest Sydney's Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital when they made the alleged threats captured in the video of their conversation via online platform Chatruletka in February.</p> <p>After the video was posted on social media by Mr Veifer, the duo's comments drew widespread condemnation, including from the prime minister and NSW premier.</p> <p>The pair faced court for the first time on Wednesday, when Abu Lebdeh arrived surrounded by half a dozen black-clad supporters to keep reporters away.</p> <p>Nadir arrived shortly after.</p> <p>Neither spoke during the brief appearance in court before a magistrate adjourned both cases until May.</p> <p>But Nadir's lawyer later told reporters he planned to apply to have the key video tossed out of the evidence brief.</p> <p>"The video ... was recorded without his knowledge," Zemarai Khatiz said outside Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court.</p> <p>"We will apply to have it excluded."</p> <p>If the application is successful, it would leave prosecutors with little other evidence to rely on in their cases against the nurses.</p> <p>Abu Lebdeh has been charged with threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.</p> <p>The 26-year-old has been on bail with conditions prohibiting her from leaving Australia or using social media.</p> <p>Nadir was hospitalised during the fallout of the video emerging but was charged earlier in March with using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence and possession of a prohibited drug.</p> <p>The 27-year-old previously apologised through his lawyer for the comments he made in the video.</p> <p>Australia's health practitioner watchdog has barred the duo from working as nurses nationwide and their registrations have been suspended by the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council.</p> </body>