Simona Carlugea is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Romanian Service.
Bucharest says around 260 Romanians or their family members are pleading for evacuation from Gaza as Israeli bombardments continue and a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds more than two weeks after Hamas's attack on Israeli civilians.
More than 100,000 Romanian public-school teachers went on strike on May 22, citing stagnant wages and crumbling facilities. Parents and students worry they will be affected by indefinite school shutdowns but many say they sympathize on the wage issue.
