Dutch nurse under investigation after threatening to kill Zionist patients

A Muslim nurse in the Netherlands is being investigated for threatening on social media to kill Israeli patients.

According to local media reports, Btissame Chait-Said, who works as a home health nurse for the elderly in the Dutch town of Driebergen-Rijsenburg, posted on Instagram in mid-July that “all Zionists can die in healthcare and I’m happy to help.”

She also wrote, “You know what I do to Zionists: As a nurse practitioner, I give them an extra injection so they go to heaven.”

Shortly afterwards, the posts, and all of Chait-Said’s social media accounts, were deleted, the reports said. A police spokesperson told Dutch paper De Telegraaf that authorities are investigating the incident.

Chait-Said denied making those posts, insisting that someone else broke into her account and wrote them under her name, De Telegraaf said.

“I did not make the statements in question and I completely distance myself from them,” Chait-Said reportedly said. “I harbor no hostility toward the Jewish people, nor toward any other people, race, religion, or orientation.”

However, the report noted, accounts on Facebook and X under her name, now deleted, have been posting inflammatory comments about Israel’s war with Gaza for some time.

In August of last year, for example, Chait-Said wrote that “Islam will always remain and there is nothing you pigs can do about it,” the report said. She also wrote about Zionists: “Your time will come. Spare no one.”

Chait-Said was questioned by police on Wednesday. An investigation is ongoing.

The case is reminiscent of an incident in Australia earlier this year, when two nurses in a Sydney hospital were suspended from work for threatening on TikTok to kill Israeli patients and saying they would refuse to treat them.

Two NSW healthcare nurses from Bankstown Hospital were stood down and are under investigation by police after claiming on camera they killed Israeli patients. This horrific incident raises urgent concerns: How many individuals like this work in other Australian hospitals?… pic.twitter.com/F0ywNhQdtK

— Piazza Victoria (@Piazza_VIC) February 11, 2025

On February 12, Israeli influencer Max Veifer posted online a video chat he had with a male and a female nurse at a Sydney hospital, identified as Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh.

After Veifer told them he was from Israel in the chat, Nadir responded, “I’m so upset that you’re Israeli… eventually you’re going to get killed and go to [hell].”

Abu Lebdeh said she would not treat any Israeli patients and instead would kill them. Nadir, with a threatening gesture, said he had already sent many “Israeli dog[s]” who visited the hospital to “Jahannam,” the term for Islamic hell in Arabic.

The video went viral, causing an uproar in Australia’s medical system and frightening Jews around the world. The two were ultimately suspended from work and charged with federal offenses.

Antisemitic incidents have risen to record levels in the Netherlands since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched its war against Israel.

A record 421 antisemitic incidents were documented in the Netherlands in 2024, marking an 11 percent rise over the previous all-time high, according to the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI), a Dutch Jewish watchdog group.

CIDI describes the findings as evidence of “an antisemitism crisis, which requires crisis management measures.”

CIDI said Chait-Said must “be dealt with severely” if the charges against her are proven, De Telegraaf said.