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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

Second Bankstown nurse charged over viral video allegedly threatening Israeli patients

Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital, in Sydney
Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital, in Sydney, where where two NSW public hospital nurses allegedly made antisemitic comments and boasted they would kill Israeli patients in a video circulated in February 2025. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

A second Bankstown nurse involved in a viral video showing both he and his colleague allegedly threatening Israeli patients has been charged by Strike Force Pearl detectives.

Ahmed Rashid Nadir, who worked at the Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital in Sydney’s west, was arrested on Tuesday evening, and later charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, and possessing a prohibited drug.

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