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BBC News
05-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Second nurse charged over video threatening Israeli patients
A second Sydney nurse who allegedly appeared in a video that made threats towards Israeli patients has been charged by Rashad Nadir, 27, and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, were both suspended from their duties at Bankstown Hospital in February after the video was released online. It was filmed on an anonymous online platform which pairs people randomly for a say there is "no evidence" the pair actually harmed Nadir was charged on Wednesday with using a carriage service to threaten, menace or harass, and with possessing a prohibited drug. Carriage services refer to modern communication systems such as phones and the Lebdeh was charged last week with three offences: threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill, and using a carriage service to harass or cause person has entered a plea to the charges, but Mr Nadir apologised last month through his the footage, which appeared to have been filmed inside a hospital and was published by an Israeli content creator, Ms Abu Lebdeh and Mr Nadir allegedly bragged about refusing to treat Israeli patients, killing them, and said they would go to video spread widely online and caused public outcry, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describing it as "disgusting" and "vile".Earlier this month Australia passed tougher laws against hate crimes following a wave of unrelated antisemitic recent months, there have been a series of arson and graffiti incidents involving homes, cars, and synagogues in Jewish communities across have also been rising incidents of islamophobia. A teenager was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly threatening to launch a Christchurch massacre-inspired attack on a Sydney mosque.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Brickbat: First, Do No Harm
Two nurses with Australia's New South Wales Ministry of Health have been removed from their jobs pending an investigation of a video, apparently shot in a hospital, in which they said they would refuse to treat and perhaps kill Israeli patients. "I won't treat them, I won't treat them. I'll kill them," said Sarah Abu Lebdeh. Rashad Nadir added, "You have no idea how many [Israelis] came to this hospital and I sent them to jaheem [hell]." Nadir later told local media his remarks were a joke. The post Brickbat: First, Do No Harm appeared first on
