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Last week, BBC Verify authenticated graphic videos that showed a public execution carried out by Hamas gunmen in Gaza.

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Hamas published a video on its official channel showing the street execution of eight blindfolded and kneeling suspects, branding them "collaborators and outlaws."

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UN-appointed human rights experts have described the US strikes as "extrajudicial executions".

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But in recent weeks, “Chicago has been the site of organized and often violent protests directed at ICE officers and other federal personnel engaged in the execution of federal immigration laws,” he wrote.

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There have been 39 executions in the United States this year, the most since 2013, when 39 inmates were also put to death.

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