In April 2024, Abu-Sittah was denied entry to Germany while attempting to travel there for a Pro-Palestinian event.
Shortly thereafter, the event was shut down by Berlin police who said cancelled it on the pretext that Salman Abu Sitta, Ghassan Abu Sittah’s uncle and one of the event speakers, was “forbidden from being politically active in Germany.”
On May 4, 2024, he was scheduled to speak to the French Senate about the medical crisis in Gaza but was denied entry to France, based on an EU-wide entry ban against him put in place by Germany.