Two Australian nurses were suspended after a video seemed to show them threatening to kill Israeli patients and boast of refusing to treat them.
The man and the woman – The two employees of a Sydney hospital – are now under investigation by police, said South New Wales officials (NSW).
The Minister of State Health, Ryan Park, said that an “in -depth investigation” would be carried out to ensure that there were “no unfavorable results (patients)”, but that a examination “Quick” hospital files had not revealed anything unusual.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned video as “disgusting and shameful” after starting to circulate online.
It comes less than a week after Australia has adopted more strict laws against hate crimes following a wave of high -level anti -Semitic attacks.
NSW police said on Wednesday said they thought they “identified the people involved” in the video.
The Minister of Health said that the two had taken away immediately and promised that they would never work in the NSW health system again.
The video was shared on Tiktok by the content creator Max Veifer, who says he is from Israel.
His account presents conversations with people he meets on the Chatguletka application – an anonymous online platform that combines people at random for a video chat.
The images, seen by the BBC, seems to have been recorded in a hospital.
A man, who claims to be a doctor, tells Mr. Veifer that he “has beautiful eyes” but adds “I’m sorry that you are Israeli” before saying that he sends Israelis to Jahannam – an Islamic place similar to Hell.
He continues to make a gesture that flows from the throat, before a woman comes to the screen and says that “one day” “the time will come” by Mr. Veifer and that he will die, adding later that she will not treat the Israelis.
“I will not treat them, I will kill them,” she said.
The video has been changed, emojis have been added and some comments have been experienced – but the authorities do not question its authenticity.
Albanian described it as “disgusting” and “vile”, writing on X: “These anti -Semitic comments, motivated by hatred, do not have their place in our health system and no place nowhere in Australia.
“Individuals who have committed criminal anti -Semitic acts will be faced with all the strength of our laws.”
Park also apologized to the Jewish community and said that he wanted to reassure them that they could always expect “first class” health care in South New Wales.
“There is no room in our hospital and our health system so that this kind of view never takes place. There is no room for this kind of perspective in our society.”
He added that the staff of the Bankstown suburbs had been embarrassed and ashamed, but said that it had not reduced the good job they did.
In recent months, in incidents not connected to the hospital video, there has been a series of criminal fires and graffiti involving houses, cars and synagogues in Jewish areas through Australia , provoking fear in the community.
A caravan filled with power freezing explosives that the police warned had the potential to provoke a “event victims event” was found in New South Wales in January, alongside a document with anti-Semitic feelings and a list of Jewish targets in Sydney.
The co-chief of the executive council of the Australian Jew Alex Ryvchin said that the video was used again as “warning sign to all the Australians of the evil that exists among us”.
