PARIS: A widely known British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals mentioned he was denied entry to France on Saturday to talk at a French Senate assembly concerning the Israel-Hamas struggle. Authorities would not give a cause for the choice.
Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta was positioned in a holding zone within the Charles de Gaulle airport and shall 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 consultants with Gaza-related expertise.
Final month Abu Sitta was denied entry to Germany to participate in a pro-Palestinian convention. He mentioned he was stopped at passport management, held for a number of hours after which advised he needed to return to the UKHe mentioned airport police advised him he was refused entry as a result of “the security of the folks on the convention and public order.”
Abu Sitta, who 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 Nineteen 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 virtually day by day because the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel. In current days and weeks police have cleared out college students at French campuses holding demonstrations and sit-ins just like these in the US.
Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta was positioned in a holding zone within the Charles de Gaulle airport and shall 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 consultants with Gaza-related expertise.
Final month Abu Sitta was denied entry to Germany to participate in a pro-Palestinian convention. He mentioned he was stopped at passport management, held for a number of hours after which advised he needed to return to the UKHe mentioned airport police advised him he was refused entry as a result of “the security of the folks on the convention and public order.”
Abu Sitta, who 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 Nineteen 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 virtually day by day because the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel. In current days and weeks police have cleared out college students at French campuses holding demonstrations and sit-ins just like these in the US.
