{"id":270971,"date":"2025-08-20T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/freed-hostage-says-he-learned-english-while-in-captivity\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:04:53","slug":"freed-hostage-says-he-learned-english-while-in-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/freed-hostage-says-he-learned-english-while-in-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Freed hostage says he learned English while in captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/HkwXV2ULv_w\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Freed hostage says he learned English while in captivity\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkwXV2ULv_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Eliya Cohen was held hostage for 505 days in Gaza, telling CNN\u2019s 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. #cnn #news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliya Cohen was held hostage for 505 days in Gaza, telling CNN\u2019s 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. #cnn #news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":270972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[129579,138608,129468],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-270971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-cohen","tag-eliya","tag-held"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Freed hostage says he learned English while in captivity | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Freed hostage says he learned English while in captivity for free, here on News ISC. 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