‘Mission accomplished’: Man who exposed Sydney nurses reveals how he ‘got them’

“I don’t know who I can trust anymore … 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

“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.”

His recording of Abu Lebdeh and Nadir appeared to take place while the pair were on shift at the hospital. NSW Police detectives have contacted Veifer, who has agreed to provide a statement and the full video.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said his evidence would be “critical” to determine if an offence had been committed and if any offence fell under state or federal legislation.

“We really need to commit the influencer to paper, and if we’re able to do that today (Thursday), then we can work through whether these people are charged or not,” she said on 2GB.

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.

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].”

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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.”

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, Peter 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,” the opposition leader said on 2GB.

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”.

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”.

The two nurses have not been charged with any crime.

With Sally Rawsthorne, Matthew Knott and Josephine Ganko.