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The armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, released a video on Saturday of an Israeli captive held in Gaza since its October 2023 attack.

In the undated, three-and-half-minute video recording that AFP has not been able to verify, 19-year-old soldier Liri Albag called in Hebrew for the Israeli government to secure her release.

The Captives and Missing Families Forum, a campaign group for relatives of those abducted, said Albag's family had not authorised the publication of the video.

The conscript was 18 when she was captured at the Nahal Oz base on the Gaza border.

Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad have released a number of videos of Israeli captives in their custody during nearly 15 months of fighting in Gaza.

The members seized 251 captives during the 2023 attack, of whom 96 remain in Gaza. The Israeli military says 34 of those are dead.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed over 45,717 Palestinians in a relentless campaign following the attack.

Hamas said late on Friday that indirect negotiations with Israel for a truce and captive release deal were to resume in Qatar that same night. There has since been no update.

Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been engaged in months of effort that have failed to end the war.

Weekly demonstrations organised by the captives forum have kept up the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring the captives home.

On Thursday, Netanyahu's office said he had authorised Israeli negotiators to join the latest round of talks in Qatar.