Nikos Trakellis

The leader of the Moria community on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos ended on Wednesday a hunger strike which he had started on Sunday in protest at overcrowding at the Moria reception center.

The leader of the Moria community on the Aegean island of Lesvos on Tuesday entered the third day of a hunger strike launched on Sunday to demand a solution for chronic overcrowding at the local reception center for migrants, rejecting the proposals of a visiting government official. 

The leader of the Moria community on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos entered the second day of a hunger strike on Monday to demand immediate action to ease overcrowding at the Moria reception and identification center, which is currently bursting at the seams with around 8,000 asylum seekers.

Concerns about overcrowding at migration reception centers have resurfaced following fresh clashes at the Moria camp on Lesvos on Sunday night.

According to the news website Lesvosnews.gr, several migrants were injured in the fracas and transferred to the island's main hospital for first aid treatment.

Tensions were building on the Aegean island of Lesvos on Thursday, a day after an elderly man threatened refugees outside the Moria camp with a hunting rifle, as authorities continued with efforts to accommodate hundreds of migrants left homeless following Monday's fire at the camp.

Moria’s residents are frustrated after last night’s episodes that followed a fire that broke out at the refugee camp in Moria at Lesbos. They came out of their homes and, together with the police forces, tried to keep the refugees away, so that the turmoil would not continue in the village.