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Afghan migrants board a boat that will transfer them to the mainland in Mytilene, Lesbos Island, on September 2, 2019. REUTERS / Alkis Konstantinidis

In Greece, on the island of Lesbos, nearly 1,200 refugees from the saturated camp of Moria were transferred earlier this week to the Greek mainland. Under the suffocating heat, these refugees, mostly families, carrying cumbersome baggage rushed to board the boats under the supervision of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

" I hope to get out of this hell fast. These are the words of Mohamed, a young Afghan who arrived five days ago in Moria. Lack of doctors and interpreters, very precarious living conditions, all under the suffocating heat of this late summer.

According to UNHCR, more than 3,000 migrants arrived in August alone. Massive arrivals are worrying the new Conservative government as nearly 11,000 people are already living in the Moria camp, four times the capacity assessed by UNHCR.

The situation has deteriorated because arrivals have been much higher for two months and even more so in recent weeks and last Thursday when some 13 boats arrived from Turkey. In one day, more than 500 people arrived by these boats.

Philippe Leclerc, representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Greece 03/09/2019 - by Heike Schmidt Play

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The Greek government has therefore decided to start transferring hundreds of people to the mainland. In the general rush, these refugees - mostly families from Afghanistan - board ships under the watchful eye of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

A distribution to other countries of the European Union remains impossible, as long as there is no agreement between the member countries. What regrets Philippe Leclerc, representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Greece.

Unfortunately, the situation does not allow relocation to other European countries since at the end of 2017 the relocation to other countries stopped and because the European states did not set up a system, did not set up agree to allocate asylum seekers who continue to arrive in Greece.

Philippe Leclerc, representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Greece 03/09/2019 - by Heike Schmidt Play