Violent clashes between refugees and locals have broken out in Greece - as the number of migrants arriving from Turkey has doubled to 1,000 in just one week.

On Chios, local residents were sprayed with tear gas by police after hundreds marched through the main square demanding the removal of the island's huge refugee camp.

On Lesbos, migrants have lead two demonstrations through the capital Mytilene demanding the right to leave the island and travel to mainland Greece having been stranded there for months.

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Clashes: Violence between refugees and locals have broken out in Greece - as the number of migrants arriving from Turkey has doubled to 1,000 in just one week. Pictured: Greek police use tear gas against residents in Chios during protest against the island's Souda migrant camp

Protests: On Chios, Far right supporters fought with asylum seekers after crowds marched through the main square demanding the closure of the controversial refugee camp

Raids: Local residents clashed with police on Wednesday night as crowds gathered demanding the closure of the sprawling Souda camp in Chios, home to almost 2,000

Some 13,000 migrants are living in over-crowded refugee camps on the Aegean islands – many on Chios and Lesbos.

Dozens of Golden Dawn supporters twice tried to invade the sprawling Souda camp in Chios, home to almost 2,000 refugees, on Wednesday night.

Angry migrants responded pelting police and demonstrators with stones and chanting; 'let us free, we want to go to Athens'.

Riot police had to use tear gas to break up the Far-right demonstration and to keep the war parties apart.

Lesbos mayor Spiros Galinos says the conditions inside the camps such as Kara Tepe on the island opened in 2015 are 'particularly worrying and dangerous'.

He told MailOnline: 'We witnessed extensive fights inside the first reception centre in Moria, with dozens of injured immigrants.'

Residents inside the camp say the conditions are unbearable.

Yiunnis Sateh, 22, from Morocco said: 'There is no room to sleep, not enough food for all and not enough water to take a shower.'

Lesbos residents say they cannot continue to support such large numbers of migrants.

Nikos Trakellis, president of Moria village that is home to the Moria refugee camp, said: 'A single village cannot bear the burden of the whole island's refugee issue with 5,000 restrained and frustrated people who are protesting all the time.

'The residents here cannot stand it anymore. How will the villagers work at their fields in the winter when these fields are cramped with immigrants. And crime is rising again.'

'The image that prevails around the world that Lesbos suffers from tremendous immigrant incidents today does not reflect reality,' said Vangelis Mirsinias, president of the Lesbos Chamber of Commerce. 'Mytilene is very neat and clean, and the beaches had been cleaned.'

Packed: Some 13,000 migrants are living in over-crowded refugee camps on the Aegean islands – many on Chios and Lesbos. Pictured: Syrian boy, four, washed by his mother at Souda

Cramped conditions: Lesbos mayor Spiros Galinos says conditions inside the camps are 'particularly worrying and dangerous'. Pictured: A Syrian woman at Souda on Chios, Greece

Mr Galinos told MailOnline: 'We witnessed extensive fights inside the first reception centre in Moria, with dozens of injured immigrants.'

Tourist numbers have plummeted by two-thirds in Greece with holidaymakers staying away after being put off by pictures of migrants on the beach next to sun loungers over the last two years.

Tourism chief Nikos Molvalis added: 'The beaches are pristine and dozens of volunteer actions had been done in spring in order to clean our shores.

'And let's not forget that in the past years [Lesbos town of] Molyvos stood next to refugees when the refugee crisis was not on the news.'

Just 16,745 holidaymakers visited Lesbos during the four-month tourist season this year, down 65 per cent down on the 47,479 who came in 2015.

Meanwhile the number of Syrians and others fleeing Turkey for Greece is growing rapidly once again as an agreement reached months ago to curb the flood of refugees into Europe seems to be on the verge of collapse.

Over 1,000 migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq arrived in Greece last week - double the previous week, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

This is a huge rise from the trickle of new asylum seekers arriving after the deal struck between Brussels and Ankara in March this year, although well short of the 1,700 daily arrivals at the height of the crisis.

'This agreement is only paper,' Syrian Mohammad Ibrahim, 44, from Aleppo, told the New York Times in Bodrum, Turkey.

'In practice they aren't sending us back to Turkey like they said they would. So it is time to go. We are waiting to leave with 40 other people. God willing, we will arrive safely.'

Turkey agreed to the controversial deal to accept migrants arriving in Greece were expected to be sent back to Turkey if they did not apply for asylum, or if their asylum requests were refused.

They also strongly enforced their border controls to prevent further migration. In return Ankara was promised a three billion Euro aid package and visa-free travel to the EU.

The EU promised to operate a fast-track asylum process in large 'hot-spot' refugee camps on the Greek islands and accept two Syrian refugees from Turkish camps for each Syrian deported to Turkey. Migrants already in Greece were supposed to be offered sanctuary in countries across the EU.

The agreement was intended to halt the huge exodus of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa who were arriving on the Greek islands last year to claim asylum.

Over one million had used this route to reach Europe.

Migrants who were not from Syria or Iraq were widely viewed as trying to exploit the wars in these countries to seek a better life in Europe.

But only 500 migrants have been returned from Greece to Turkey under the deal. A further 4,200 have returned to their home countries voluntarily.

Meanwhile some 13,000 have been stuck on the Aegean islands since March waiting for their applications for asylum to be heard – the majority on Chios and Lesbos.

Another 56,000 who had reached Greece ahead of the deal and the closure of the so-called Balkan route to northern Europe are stuck on the mainland.

EU states have failed to honour the agreement to take in refugees from Greece.

The Turkish government's brutal crackdown on opposition following the failed coup in July has caused EU leaders to stall on their offer of visa-free travel ahead of the October deadline.

There are fears Turkey will pull out of the deal completely if the EU fails to honour their visa-free travel demand.

The break-down in the EU-Turkey agreement has spurred a new wave of migrants to set sail from Turkish beaches for the Greek islands.

Meanwhile refugees have told of their frustration at being prevented from leaving the Aegean camps for the mainline and other parts of Europe.

Eritrean refugee Gabi Dula, 25, has been waiting for five months in Lesbos for her asylum request to be examined.

She said: 'People from Eritrea have been recognised by the EU as refugees. But the committee here hasn't even interviewed us.

'We have our babies here and our families are waiting for us in Europe.'

Eritrean Sakan Bali, 20, added: 'Eritrea has been at war with Ethiopia for years. The state obliges us to be soldiers and fight after 18 years old.

'But we don't want war. We want peace and education.'

Yezidi refugee Teo Ban, 28, from northern Iraq, has been living at Lesbos' Kara Tepe camp for many months with his wife Dera and their children.

Describing his flight from the Sinjar mountain massacre he said: 'I lived in the mountains for nine days. I saw children dying at the mountain because they had no food or water.'

Among the refugees are also economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

Tourist numbers have plummeted by two-thirds in Greece with holidaymakers being put off by pictures of migrants on the beach next to sun loungers over the last two years

Over 1,000 migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq arrived in Greece last week - double the previous week, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Many of them end up in Souda refugee camp on the island of Chios (pictured)

Mehdi Ahman, 31, from Morocco, said: 'If you are not from a well-known family you don't get a good job. I sold cleaning products to survive but I have studied. I can't live in the streets I will go wherever there is job.'

Mehdi, who reached Lesbos in April, added: 'My trip by the boat was a nightmare. The smugglers left us in a forest in Turkey and we had been waiting for three days for the boat to come.