‘Mission accomplished’: Man who exposed Sydney nurses reveals how he ‘got them’
“We Jewish people, we want to live peacefully with everyone as Israelis, we don’t want to go to hospitals or different countries and experience this hate for no reason.”
“The mission has [been] accomplished. We got them.”
“I had a mission to accomplish I had to expose them, stay calm, and get as much info as I can.”
Veifer, who has made similar videos debating with people around the world about Israel, said, “Everyone hates me on that app”.
Nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh In Viefer’s video.
His recording of Abu Lebdeh and Nadir appeared to take place while the pair were on shift at the hospital.
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said he would do everything in his power to make sure the pair never worked in healthcare in Australia again.
“I don’t want there to be a sliver of light for these two individuals to think there is any pathway forward to appeal and get their way back into a NSW Health or hospital facility,” he said on the Today show on Wednesday morning.
Nadir’s lawyer, Mohamad Sakr, said his client had issued a “sincere apology” to Veifer and the wider Jewish community.
In the video, Nadir says: “You have no idea how many [Israelis] came to this hospital, and I sent them to Jahannam [the Islamic equivalent of the underworld].”
Nadir’s lawyer Mohamad Sakr outside the nurse’s Bankstown home. Credit: Janie Barrett
Sakr said his client, who fled from Afghanistan with his family as a child and recently became an Australian citizen, wanted to make amends.
“He has never appeared before the court in relation to any criminal matters. He is a person of prior good character,” Sakr said.
“He’s apologised for the action, he’s apologised for his words, whether he had the mental capacity at the time of an alleged offence, to commit an offence, that is a matter for the courts.”
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The video is being investigated by NSW Police’s Strike Force Pearl, which was established last year to investigate antisemitic incidents in Sydney.
Police Commissioner Karen Webb said detectives had seized CCTV footage in their investigation into the “appalling incident”. Police are expected to provide an update on Thursday morning.
The two nurses have not been charged with any crime.
The Nurses and Midwives Association has planned a rally in Sydney’s Martin Place at 10am on Thursday in a show of unity against hate speech.
