Weather favors continued arrivals on Crete, Gavdos

The makeshift installation successful Agia, successful Crete’s Hania region, which is presently hosting much than 1,100 migrants, is unsuitable and operating beyond capacity. [INTIME NEWS]

Migration arrivals to Greece’s southern islands, peculiarly Gavdos and Crete, proceed amid improved weather conditions, contempt stricter migration policies.

Recent information from the Migration Ministry amusement that migrants arriving from Libya are present predominantly Sudanese, with some Palestinians among them.

Eleni Zervoudaki, lawman politician of Hania, described the swift effect to caller arrivals successful Gavdos. “We hardly had clip to cleanable the area. Luckily, we’ve learned to enactment quickly,” she said.

On Monday, 172 migrants, mostly Sudanese, were rescued successful 4 abstracted incidents and transported to the Agia migrant structure successful Hania. A caller radical of 36 migrants was besides detected south of Gavdos by Frontex drones connected Tuesday.

The temporary structure successful Agia, a makeshift installation successful an accumulation space, has been successful use for two years.

From August 2024 to August 2025, 13,804 migrants arrived connected Crete and Gavdos, astir a 5th of Greece’s total arrivals during the aforesaid period.

Meanwhile, arrivals connected islands with established facilities, such arsenic Leros and Kos, person importantly dropped owed to the EU-Turkey deal.

Migration Minister Thanasis Plevris has repeatedly announced plans for a imperishable structure connected Crete, but nary caller sites person been designated.

Most caller arrivals are Sudanese, Eritreans and Palestinians, nationalities with exile profiles, marking a displacement from erstwhile waves dominated by Egyptians.

A suspension of asylum applications for migrants arriving from Libya remains successful effect until October 9.