SYDNEY — An Australian nurse filmed in an online video chat saying she would kill Israeli patients has been charged with threatening violence, police say.
Footage released by Israeli influencer Max Veifer on social media this month showed him in a video chat with a male and a female nurse at a Sydney hospital.
Asked how they would treat Israeli patients in their Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in southwest Sydney, the female nurse told Veifer: “I won’t treat them, I will kill them.”
Detectives charged the 26-year-old woman — named in Australian media as Sarah Abu Lebdeh — with threatening violence to a group; using a carriage service to threaten to kill; and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, police said in a statement.
Police had acted “swiftly under enormous pressure and public expectation,” New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb says.
The woman is scheduled to face court in Sydney on March 19.
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