Ghassan Abu Sittah: HRW calls on Germany to explain Europe travel ban on surgeon

Human Rights Watch has called on Germany to confirm whether it has imposed a year-long ban on prominent British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah from entering Europe. 

In the past two weeks, Abu Sittah, who operated in Gaza during the first few weeks of the war, was barred from entering France to address the French Senate and the Netherlands.

Earlier this year, Germany also banned Abu Sittah from entering the country to speak at a Palestine solidarity conference and deported him back to the UK. 

Abu Sittah’s lawyers said French…