The ‘very strict’ rules female nurse must now follow after she allegedly threatened to kill Jewish patients

A Sydney nurse who allegedly threatened to kill Jewish patients in shocking footage is no longer allowed to leave Australia or use social media, police have revealed.

Former Bankstown Hospital nurses Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir appeared in a viral video earlier this month where they allegedly boasted of withholding treatment from Israeli patients and even killing them. 

Detectives arrested Abu Lebdeh, 26, when she attended Sutherland Police Station in southern Sydney with her lawyer at about 7.30pm on Tuesday – two weeks after the video was posted to social media.

The Condell Park woman was charged with three Commonwealth offences: threatening violence to group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace/harass/offend.

She was granted conditional bail and is scheduled to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on March 19.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon that Abu Lebdeh was being closely monitored while on bail.

‘She is on very, very strict bail conditions, namely prohibiting her from going to a point of departure from Australia, but more importantly, banned from using social media,’ Ms Webb said.

She added that the police investigation had involved getting a statement from Israeli influencer Max Veifer, who captured the video. The statement was received in Hebrew and had to be translated. 

‘It took some time to get a comprehensive statement as well as the unedited video and when we did obtain that statement it was taken in Hebrew and we had to translate that into English to make it admissible into evidence in New South Wales.

‘I don’t think I would have ever imagined that an investigation of that complexity, across the other side of the world, would be done is such a short time.’

Ms Webb also explained that Abu Lebdeh was charged with Commonwealth offences because Mr Veifer was overseas at the time she allegedly spoke to him. 

After police got advice from Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions on Tuesday, they contacted Abu Lebdeh’s lawyer and the fomer nurse then went to the police station where she was arrested.  

It comes after police confirmed earlier on Wednesday that they had yet to speak to Nadir because he was receiving ‘ongoing medical treatment’.

It’s understood that Nadir’s situation has hampered the ability to interview him.  

On the night of February 13, a day after the alleged anti-Semitic video was posted to social media, Nadir was rushed to hospital amid concerns for his mental health. 

It’s unclear how much of Nadir’s time has been spent in hospital, and in his Bankstown townhouse, in the days since. 

Both nurses have been deregistered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW.