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The government is adopting a hardline stance on illegal immigration using the “Evros formula,” in an effort to prevent the consolidation of a new route controlled by smuggling networks that targets Crete and Gavdos. This decision comes in light of the sheer number of several million civil war refugees from Sudan, migrants from the Sahel, and Egyptians fleeing economic turmoil—numbers that pose a nightmare scenario.

Michal Peleg, a 65-year-old Israeli writer who had been missing, was found dead in the sea area of ​​Gournia Pachia Ammos. The first forensic examination of the body did not reveal any findings indicating a criminal act.

A search is underway in Crete for a missing Israeli woman who was last seen on Wednesday, the Times of Israel reported.