France denies entry to British-Palestinian Gaza war surgeon in ‘utter vindictiveness’

ER Editor: Al Mayadeen has this on Germany‘s refusal to let surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta into the EU generally. It was when the surgeon tried to enter France via Charles de Gaulle airport this past Saturday that he was physically prevented from entering French and therefore EU territory because of the German ban —

UN expert slams Germany over EU entry ban on Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta

A reminder that Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta is not only a Palestinian surgeon but also the Rector of Glasgow University, installed just last month. ‘Rector‘ has other equivalents in other university systems, such as President and Vice-Chancellor.

From the article above, we get this:

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, slammed German authorities for issuing a ban on the entry of renowned Palestinian doctor and Glasgow University rector Ghassan Abu Sitta into the visa-free Schengen zone.

“As a European, I apologise to Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta for the ban to enter European countries handed out by Germany, which has reached a new low in defending Israel’s genocide, of which Dr Abu Sitta is a brave direct witness,” Albanese wrote Sunday on X.

She urged Germany “to reverse this shameful decision and other European countries to challenge it meanwhile,” stressing that Abu Sitta “must be allowed to share his precious testimony everywhere and be received with the honors a brave principled human being deserves.”

So Germany seems to have initiated this ban on a UK university president and France plays the sheep because … ‘Schengen’.

And also this from Al Mayadeen —

Press Release by Italian health workers on Ghassan Abu Sitta entry ban

Of note:

Dr. Ghassan has witnessed all the attacks on Gaza since 2008 and for the first month and a half of the current attack he worked first in the Al Shifa hospital and then, when it was evacuated by the Israeli army, in the Baptist hospital Al Alhi. This long experience and the fact that he is a witness to how this war was carried out in the field means that he understands what is motivating the almost total destruction of hospitals and health services, of universities and schools of all levels, of archaeological sites, churches, and mosques.

Dr. Ghassan tells us that it is not a coincidence that Gaza became a scorched earth where people cannot access care or food, but the result of a plan for the total destruction of a people. His analysis evidently made him “unwelcome” in Germany, which with intolerable arbitrariness issued a ban for all Schengen European countries.

It’s well worth reading in full.

Professor Ghassan Abu-Sitta says the Schengen-wide ban imposed on him by Germany appears to be an attempt to silence his witness testimony on Israel’s crimes. “It communicates to me the complete complicity of the German government in the genocidal war.” https://t.co/xYybCxHH5D

— Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel (@shailjapatel) May 5, 2024

The testimony of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta from his 43 days working in various hospitals in Gaza city bombed, assaulted and destroyed by Israel. This is what Germany & France, who banned Dr. Abu-Sitta from entering and speaking, do not want you to hear about.https://t.co/x6sDovHLw4

— Sophia (@les_politiques) May 5, 2024

We agree with Marcel D’s interpretation. Zionists are scoring an own goal.

Translation: The level of stupidity of the Zionist entities trying to put out the fires that are being lit everywhere multiplies the gross errors. Indeed, by prohibiting Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta from setting foot on French soil, they made this complete stranger popular. Ghassan Abu-Sitta’s Twitter account is literally exploding (a little more advertising here, it’s a freebie:

Le niveau de stupidité des entités sionistes qui tentent d’éteindre les incendies qui s’allument de partout multiplie les erreurs grossières. En effet, en interdisant au chirurgien palestinien Ghassan Abu-Sitta de fouler le sol français, elles ont rendu populaire ce parfait… https://t.co/Ob8zOovW9q

— Marcel D. (@DubreuilhMarcel) May 4, 2024

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France denies entry to British-Palestinian Gaza war surgeon in ‘utter vindictiveness’

British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta speaks to the press during a pro-Palestinian protest in London, on May 3, 2024. (AFP)

The British-Palestinian doctor said Saturday he was denied access to France after he arrived at Charles De Gaulle airport north of Paris on Saturday.

Abu-Sittah said he was told that Germany had enforced a Schengen-wide ban on his entry to Europe.

German authorities had last month refused his entry to Berlin, where Abu-Sitta was scheduled to address a conference to which he was invited to speak about his work in Gaza hospitals.

Germany had put a visa ban on him for a year.

“They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French senate today,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

ER inserts:

I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.

— Ghassan Abu Sitta (@GhassanAbuSitt1) May 4, 2024

Fortress Europe silencing the witnesses to the genocide while Israel kills them in prison.

— Ghassan Abu Sitta (@GhassanAbuSitt1) May 4, 2024

Abu-Sittah was invited by Green party parliamentarians to take part in a conference at the Sénat, the upper house, to speak about the healthcare system in the besieged Palestinian territory.

The theme of the conference was: France and its responsibility in the application of international law in Gaza.

“In an act of utter vindictiveness the French authorities are denying me access to an earlier flight and insisting on sending me on the last flight back late night to London.”

A spokesperson for the Elysée Palace said, “When it’s a question of a Schengen refusal, the border police can’t do much about it.”

The International Center of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) – an independent organization of lawyers, politicians and academics — condemned Abu-Sittah’s detention in Paris as an “unacceptable harassment of a globally respected medical professional.”

It said, “By design, the Germans are silencing a key witness to Israel’s war crimes.”

“This follows their action taken on 12 April to bar Dr Abu-Sittah’s entry to Berlin to participate in the Palestine Congress – an event which German police later disbanded.”

The surgeon had worked at Gaza’s al-Shifa and al-Ahli Baptist hospitals during the months of October and November 2023. During his 43 days of volunteer work, he said he witnessed a “massacre unfold.”

Abu-Sittah said he witnessed the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israel’s military forces in Gaza.

The ICJP handed evidence to Scotland Yard in January about Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza under applicable UK legislation, including evidence from Abu-Sittah. (ER: And we wish them well with that. UK MP Andrew Bridgen can’t even get a reply from the Met Commissioner over Covid crimes.)

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