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A captured Israeli-Palestinian Islamic State group member has pleaded with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to repatriate him.

Sayyaf Sharif Daoud made the appeal in an published on Wednesday.

"I am asking Netanyahu… I am an Israeli citizen. I know that you are the prime minister of a democratic country," Daoud says in Hebrew.

"You do not discriminate between Arab, Jews and Druze. I am having a very tough time in this prison,"

"I am asking to be returned to Israel. This is my request and I know it's not difficult for you. I promise that I will not return to how I was," he added.

The jihadist from Tel Aviv joined IS in 2015 and was captured by Kurdish-led forces in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour.

He says he regrets joining the extremist group and denies having been a fighter with them.

Following the collapse of IS's self-proclaimed caliphate, foreigners from nearly 50 countries have been detained in Syria and Iraq.

Over 11,000 of their family members are being held in Syria's al-Hol camp alone.