Last September, just 30 asylum seekers made the 190-nautical-mile journey from Tobruk in Libya to the Greek island of Gavdos and Crete’s southern coast just above it; that number swelled to 397 in December and has passed 1,100 in the first couple of months of 2024.
Turkey’s growing influence in Libya is reportedly worrying Athens, especially as tensions between Ankara and Benghazi have eased.
Defence Minister Nikos Dendias participated on Thursday in a ceremony honoring the members of the Armed Forces who died in a road accident while on a humanitarian mission to Libya.
Climate change made the heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Libya up to 50 times more likely, scientists said on Tuesday. The powerful September 10 storm caused two dams to break, inundating Libya’s eastern city of Derna and killing thousands of people.
The Hellenic National Defence General Staff has released the names of the three members of the Armed Forces who were part of a Greek search-and-rescue team in Libya that was killed in a road accident on Sunday.
Two military nurses have been identified as being among the five members of a Greek search-and-rescue team that was involved in a serious car accident in Libya, en route from Benghazi to the flood-ravaged city of Derna on Sunday.
EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic expressed on Monday his condolences for the victims of the Greek rescue team who lost their lives while driving towards the flood-ravaged city of Derna, where they would join international humanitarian teams assisting in recovery efforts.
The head of Greece’s Armed Forces Konstantinos Floros visited members of the Greek humanitarian mission who were injured in a road accident in Libya that claimed the lives of five of its members.
Greek authorities were conducting DNA tests to determine the identities of the five members of a rescue team sent to Libya on Sunday who died in a road accident on their way to the flood-ravaged city of Derna.
It is still not clear how the road accident that killed five members of a Greek rescue team on their way to the flood-ravaged city of Derna, Libya, happened, government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said on Monday.
Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday it was “doubly painful to mourn lives that were lost while saving lives” of others, after five members of a Greek rescue team sent to Libya to assist in the international rescuing efforts died in a road accident on Sunday.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias expressed on Monday his “deepest sorrow” for the death of members of the Armed Forces, who lost their lives participating in the Greek humanitarian aid mission in Libya.
Five members of a Greek rescue team en route to the flood-ravaged city of Derna from Benghazi were killed in a road accident on Sunday, while two were missing, the country’s Defense Minister Nikos Dendias confirmed on Monday.
Four members of a Greek rescue team en route to the flood-ravaged city of Derna and three members of a Libyan family were killed in a road accident on Sunday, the health minister for the Libyan eastern government said.
