Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, says the nearly three-minute video of 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin shows him openly criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the video, he appears to say that Netanyahu is “not doing enough, blames him for not getting the captives out,” Smith said.

“Remember, of course, when these videos are released they are not speaking freely, they are being told what they can and cannot say by their captures,” Smith said.

According to the footage, Goldberg-Polin says he’s been “underground” for about 200 days, so there is “no fixed time on the video”, Smith said, adding that it’s the first video of its kind in about three months.

“Israel calls the use of these videos ‘deplorable, psychological warfare’,” Smith said.

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