The former NSW Health nurse will appear in court on 19 March.
Sarah Abu Lebdeh, the female former Bankstown Hospital nurse involved in a video posted to social media in which she claimed she would refuse to treat Israeli patients, has been charged by police with three commonwealth offences.
Ms Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir were working the nightshift in the hospital’s paediatric ward when they took part in a Chatruletka conversation with Israeli influence Max Veifer in which they allegedly gloated about refusing to treat Israeli patients, killing them, and saying they would go to hell.
Both were immediately stood down by NSW Health and have subsequently been deregistered nationally.
On Tuesday night Ms Lebdeh was arrested at Sutherland Police Station and has been charged with threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace/harass/offend.
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Mr Nadir has not been charged at this stage.
Ms Lebdeh was granted conditional bail to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday 19 March.
NSW police commissioner Karen Webb told the ABC that police had so far found no evidence that any patients had been harmed but said NSW Health was continuing its own investigation.
She said the investigation was “not straightforward”.
“Given the nature of this offending, where we had two people here in NSW and the recording made overseas. It’s been a complex investigation given the nature of, we’re talking across borders,” she said.
“[There] has been a lot of work by investigators and support from overseas jurisdictions to get the statement from the influencer and have it converted to English and have it admissible in court.
“So not straightforward, and that’s why we’ve gone with Commonwealth offences, through the advice of the Commonwealth [Director of Public Prosecutions].”