While the rescue of four hostages is great news for some there are still about

120 hostages remaining in Raza one of them is 22-year-old Omer Nutra.

He's an American and Israeli citizen and was serving as a tank commander in the Israel

Defense Forces on October 7th stationed on the Gaza border when he was taken captive by Hamas.

His parents, Orna and Ronan Nutra, joined me now.

Welcome and thank you for being here.

Thank you.

So Orna, tell us a little bit about your son.

I understand he was born and raised in Long Island.

He spent a gap year in Israel, deferring college back in 2020 and decided to stay and join the IDF. Tell us why.

So, O'R was actually born in New York City, one month after 9-11 on 10-14, and on 9-11 I was working in the city,

I was nine months pregnant with him, and I remember walking over the Queensboro Bridge thinking to myself

I can't believe that this is happening. So he was born right after that and you know into that climate in New York City a lot of I remember a lot of people posting missing people and now you know he's on one of these pictures and this horrible

terrorist attack. Nothing in his childhood could have prepared us for this you

know he had a happy childhood on Long Island, very close community.

He was accepted to Binghamton University but decided that he wanted to spend a year in Israel.

We're both dual citizens of Israel in the United States.

He said, you know, if I'm going to spend a year in Israel,

I want to do it the way Israeli kids would do it.

And he felt very strongly that he shouldn't just go back to

college that he should serve as well that it was his duty to serve.

Ronan as you know we're speaking just after this raid in Central Gaza that did end up freeing four

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