As dozens of boats set sail in the largest civilian attempt to break Israel's naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, protesters in cities across Italy are holding "ground support" events for the flotilla.
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Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.