PARIS: A well known British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals stated he was denied entry to France on Saturday to talk at a French Senate assembly concerning the Israel-Hamas conflict. Authorities would not give a motive for the choice.
Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta was positioned in a holding zone within the Charles de Gaulle airport and might be expelled, in accordance with French Sen.Raymonde Poncet Monge, who had invited him to talk on the Senate.
”It is a shame,” she posted on X.
Abu Sitta posted on social networks that he was denied entry in France due to a one-year ban by Germany on his entry to Europe. Germany denied him entry final month, and France and Germany are a part of Europe’s border-free Schengen zone. He posted Saturday that he was being despatched again to London.
The French International Ministry, Inside Ministry, native police and the Paris airport authority wouldn’t touch upon what occurred or give an evidence.
Abu Sitta had been invited by France’s left-wing Ecologists group within the Senate to talk at a colloquium Saturday concerning the scenario in Gaza, in accordance with the Senate press service. The gathering included testimony from medics, journalists and worldwide authorized specialists with Gaza-related expertise.
Final month Abu Sitta was denied entry to Germany to participate in a pro-Palestinian convention. He stated he was stopped at passport management, held for a number of hours after which informed he needed to return to the UKHe stated airport police informed him he was refused entry on account of “the protection of the individuals on the convention and public order.”
Abu Sitta, who just lately volunteered with Medical doctors With out Borders in Gaza, has labored throughout a number of conflicts within the Palestinian territories, starting within the late Eighties in the course of the first Palestinian rebellion. He has additionally labored in different battle zones, together with in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
France has seen tensions associated to the Mideast battle nearly day by day because the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel. In latest days and weeks police have cleared out college students at French campuses holding demonstrations and sit-ins just like these in america.
Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta was positioned in a holding zone within the Charles de Gaulle airport and might be expelled, in accordance with French Sen.Raymonde Poncet Monge, who had invited him to talk on the Senate.
”It is a shame,” she posted on X.
Abu Sitta posted on social networks that he was denied entry in France due to a one-year ban by Germany on his entry to Europe. Germany denied him entry final month, and France and Germany are a part of Europe’s border-free Schengen zone. He posted Saturday that he was being despatched again to London.
The French International Ministry, Inside Ministry, native police and the Paris airport authority wouldn’t touch upon what occurred or give an evidence.
Abu Sitta had been invited by France’s left-wing Ecologists group within the Senate to talk at a colloquium Saturday concerning the scenario in Gaza, in accordance with the Senate press service. The gathering included testimony from medics, journalists and worldwide authorized specialists with Gaza-related expertise.
Final month Abu Sitta was denied entry to Germany to participate in a pro-Palestinian convention. He stated he was stopped at passport management, held for a number of hours after which informed he needed to return to the UKHe stated airport police informed him he was refused entry on account of “the protection of the individuals on the convention and public order.”
Abu Sitta, who just lately volunteered with Medical doctors With out Borders in Gaza, has labored throughout a number of conflicts within the Palestinian territories, starting within the late Eighties in the course of the first Palestinian rebellion. He has additionally labored in different battle zones, together with in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
France has seen tensions associated to the Mideast battle nearly day by day because the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel. In latest days and weeks police have cleared out college students at French campuses holding demonstrations and sit-ins just like these in america.
