NSW nurse who allegedly threatened Israeli patients fled Afghanistan
A Bankstown Hospital nurse who allegedly filmed a video threatening to kill Israeli patients can be identified as a recent Australian citizen who fled Afghanistan.
Ahmad Rashad Nadir appeared in the video with a female colleague allegedly while the pair were working the night shift, when they both made threats towards Israelis.
The woman who allegedly threatens to kill Israeli patients and refuse them medical care in the video is Bankstown Hospital nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh.
In the video, the woman allegedly says to Israeli social media personality Max Veifer: “One day, your time will come, and you will die the most horrible death.”
Nadir adds: “You have no idea how many [Israelis] came to this hospital, and I sent them to Jehannam” – the Islamic equivalent of the underworld.
Rashad Nadir was allegedly filmed making threats to Israeli patients.
Nadir, who was stood down by NSW Health, fled Afghanistan when he was a child, according to a social media post from not-for-profit group The Helmsman Project.
“Rashad Nadir is making a difference in our public hospitals working as a nurse while studying part time to get a masters and continue helping his adopted country after fleeing Afghanistan,” the post, from 2021, said.
The post quotes Nadir as saying: “They used to tell me ‘why you here for, go back to Afghanistan’ or ‘shut up you don’t know how to speak English’. At that time I could understand what they say but I wasn’t able to answer them back or stand up for myself.”
