A British Palestinian doctor was denied entry to France for a Senate meeting about the war in Gaza

By ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — A British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate. The French senator who invited him says Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta was placed in a holding zone in the Charles de Gaulle airport and will be expelled. Abu Sitta posted on social networks that he was denied entry in France because of a one-year ban by Germany on his entry to Europe. Both Germany and France are part of Europe’s border-free Schengen zone. A French official said that Abu Sitta was turned away because he is barred from entry to all Schengen countries based on a German request.