Eliya Cohen was held hostage for 505 days in Gaza, telling CNN’s Clarissa Ward in an exclusive interview that he was chained, shared scraps of pita with other hostages and learned English courtesy of a book gifted to him by a fellow hostage who was subsequently executed by Hamas.
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