Footage released by Israeli influencer Max Veifer on social media this month appeared to show him in a video chat with a male and a female nurse at a Sydney hospital.

Asked how they would treat Israeli patients in their Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in southwest Sydney, the female nurse allegedly tells Veifer: “I won’t treat them, I will kill them.”

Detectives charged the 26-year-old woman – named in Australian media as Sarah Abu Lebdeh – with threatening violence to a group; using a carriage service to threaten to kill; and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, police said in a statement.

Police had acted “swiftly under enormous pressure and public expectation”, New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb said.

The woman is scheduled to face court in Sydney on March 19.