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Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs In the video, Abu Lebdeh allegedly threatens Israeli patients and tells Veifer: “One day, your time will come, and you will die the most horrible death.”When asked what would happen if an Israeli patient came into the hospital, she says: “I won’t treat them; I will kill them.”“You have no idea how many [Israelis] came to this hospital, and I sent them to Jahannam [the Islamic equivalent of the underworld],” Nadir says in the video.Nadir’s lawyer Mohamad Sakr outside the nurse’s Bankstown home. Credit: Janie BarrettThe video, which was edited and posted by Veifer, was shared on social media and came to the attention of NSW Health on Wednesday morning. The nurses were identified and stood down, and a police investigation began.On Thursday, federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton used the video to call for a debate on the “inadequacies of the migration system”. Both nurses are Australian citizens, according to sources familiar with their immigration statuses.Veifer often makes videos debating other internet users about the Middle East conflict and is known for pretending to be Canadian, only to later reveal he is actually from Israel. He told Sky News’ Sharri Markson that he was worried more healthcare workers in Australia shared these views.“I exposed two nurses, but how many others are there?” Veifer said. “I don’t know who I can trust any more … if I go under anaesthesia, should I trust them? Should I tell them I’m from Israel?‘I had a mission to accomplish. I had to expose them, stay calm, and get as much info as I can.’Max Veifer“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.”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 ensure 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.Park visited Bankstown Hospital with NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip on Thursday to apologise to the Jewish community and to “convey to the hardworking staff … that we acknowledge those vile individuals don’t represent our workforce”.LoadingNadir’s lawyer, Mohamad Sakr, said his client had issued a “sincere apology” to Veifer and the wider Jewish community.Sakr said his client, who fled 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.”Sakr told the Herald on Thursday morning that investigators had not requested his client attend the police station.“I can confirm it’s under investigation, though,” he said.‘A conversation for our country’After the footage emerged, Dutton said he would welcome a debate on stripping citizenship from certain individuals.“I think it’s a conversation for our country at some point, maybe sooner than later, about how we can say to these people: if you don’t share our values, if you’re here, and you’re enjoying the welfare system, and you’re enjoying free health and free education, then at the same time you hate our country? Well, I don’t think you’ve got a place here,” he said on 2GB.He said Nadir remaining in the country, despite being a citizen, should be “of deep concern to every Australian”.Under the Citizenship Act, the minister for home affairs can apply for a court order stripping a person of citizenship only if they hold dual citizenship, are over 14, have been convicted of a serious offence and have been sentenced to more than three years’ imprisonment.The person must also have demonstrated they have “repudiated their allegiance to Australia”.Nurses rally against hatredAt Martin Place on Thursday, members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association rallied “in a show of unity and to promote cultural harmony”.Association president O’Bray Smith, a Bankstown local, was brought to tears as she spoke of the anger and hurt from patients, health professionals and the public.ICU nurse Wing Besilos wipes away tears at a nurses rally. Credit: Kate Geraghty“There were lots of tears from our members this morning. They’re absolutely devastated at what the community must think of us as nurses and midwives who turn up every single day to look after our community,” Smith said. With Matthew Knott and Josefine Ganko

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