morning futures. i m sean duffy in for maria bartiromo. today, more hostages to be released by hamas after a nail-biting exchange yesterday.s 13 israelis and 4 foreign citizens are back in israel afte cr hamas terrorists put the deal on hold for over 6 hours. israel has received the third hs list of hostages to be released, so for now the deal seems to be back on. national security advisor jakeit sullivan said this morning he has, quote, reason to believe at least one of those released today will be an american. up to ten americans are believed to be held by hamas. here s what president biden sai friday when asked about the kidnapped and missing americans. we don t know when that will occur, but we expect it to occur. we know thpecte numbers when thr going to be released, so it s my hope and expectation it ll be soon. and of the americans [inaudible] do you know all of their - conditions? are they all alive? we don t know all their conditions. seanican: plus, days af
qatar, egypt and the us helped resolve the issue thirty nine more resolve the issue, thirty nine more palestinian prisoners all women and minors detained by israel are due to be freed in exchange for the release of the hostages. live now to our middle east correspondent tom bateman in jerusalem. what s the latest we know and what s been the reaction where you are to this latest release of hostages? what we know is the group of 13 israelis and four tight nationals cross the border into egypt and have been taken by israeli officials to seven israel as happened last night being taken to several different hospitals in israel. that will be the first opportunity they have two be reunited with family members in person. tile. we have comp formation now from qatar and both the palestinians and israelis that 39 palestinians have been released for custody. qatar says that they are women and children because that is the framework of the entire agreement about the reciprocal releases
nationals now in egypt after crossing true the rafah crossing earlier tonight. their release delayed this afternoon after hamas claimed israel was not letting enough aid into gaza. qatari and egyptian mediators god involve got involved and cleared that up. good evening. i m jon scott, and this is a special 2-hour edition of the fox report. jon: today s hostage release follows yesterday s first round which saw hamas free 13 israelis, 10 thai nationals and a filipino under two separate deals. lucas tomlinson is in nantucket, massachusetts, with the president, but let s begin with jeff paul. he is in southern israel right now. jeff. reporter: yeah, jon, a very tense day here in israel, but the second day of the hamas-israel temporary ceasefire appears to be holding. it did get off to a rocky start. severe delays in this second batch of hostages released, and that s in part because hamas accused israel of not holding up to their side of the agreement. they said that not
live to our middle east correspondent tom bateman who is in jerusalem. tom, thank you for joining. what is the latest on the hostages that have been released? what we know is that they have been transferred, as you say into the hands of the red cross, taken to the raffle border crossing between gaza and egypt. they have crossed it it rafah crossing. received by it israeli officials. very significant delay as you said, we re expecting this to happen all at four o clock local time. that is eight hours ago. the delay was because it seems by a dispute about what was in the agreement relating to humanitarian aid passing from the south of the gaza strip to the north of the gaza strip. the armed wing of hamas accused the israelis of effectively not allowing enough aid to pass into the north. the israeli military category denied that and said they co ordinate about that, it s the responsibility of the united nations. it was resolved with the immediate mediation of qatar and egypt.