washington. israel now has the list of hostages who are supposed to be released tomorrow, and we are just hours away from day two of this expected four-day truce. i should note, we are getting new reporting in now. we are told there are several children who are on that list for tomorrow. of course the final group remains to be seen. that is something that we will learn as it happens in real time, as we did today, with this first group of hamas-held hostages being back on israeli soil. what we know is happening right now is they are getting medical treatment across multiple different locations here in tel aviv, where they have been reunited with their families. they are also including, at this children's hospital that is right outside of where i'm standing right now, 24 hostages in total, which are 13 israelis, ten thai citizens, one filipino, all evacuated from gaza today and released by hamas after being held there for several weeks. there was not a dry eye in the room when will five of these hostages were reunited with their families after a very long period of time. >> indeed. and no americans were included in today's release. but president biden says he's hopeful that at least a few will be freed in the coming days. >> we don't know when that will occur, but we're going to be expecting to occur. and we don't know what the list of all the hostages are and when they'll be released, but we know the numbers that are going to be released. so, it is my hope and expectation, it'll be soon. >> the americans unaccounted for, do you know all their conditions? are they all alive. >> we don't know all their conditions. >> by the end of this four-day pause in fighting, 50 hostages are expected to be freed. also part of the deal, dozens of palestinian prisoners are being released, and critical aid is now making its way into gaza. >> i want to go to our cnn chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, who is here with me now. clarissa, we're seeing new images, not just what we have seen and the media has seen as part of what's happening today, but also hamas is releasing a video of when it was handing off these hostages earlier today. >> first of all, the usual caveat that we weren't there. cnn wasn't there at any of the locations, so we can't really speak to the voracity or what's happening in the video. but what it appears to show, it's been put out by hamas' social media channels, there's no audio. we've seen that before. it may be that they're trying to disguise or not reveal the voices of some of the hamas militants who appear in the video. but you see the handover taking place to the red cross. you see one of the hamas fighters, sort of, trying to put his arm around a young boy. we believe that is 9-year-old ohad monder, who was one of the young children released today. you see another scene in which one of the hamas militants actually picks up one of the elderly hostages and carries her into the vehicle that's waiting for them. and i think it's important to underscore that, of course, for hamas, this is something of a propaganda opportunity, right? they really want to show that these hostages have been treated well. they want to obviously down play the trauma they've been through and try to use this to maximize leverage for them. >> and you were outside a children's hospital all day today, as we were watching in realtime, these hostages make their way from gaza to egypt and then finally here to israel. what did you see? >> it was a pretty extraordinary moment, i must say, kaitlan, as these two helicopters flew into the compound at the schneider children's medical center. there were large crowds of people who had gathered just to observe this moment. it was a sense of happiness and emotion. a lot of effort had gone to trying to preserve the dignity and privacy of the hostages. they put these screens up that basically protected the hostages -- the freed hostages -- as they disembarked from that chopper. we do know there were of course eight individuals at that specific hospital from three different families. and i want to play a bit of that sound that you mentioned from israel's chief nurse who was talking about the situation at the wolfson hospital, where the other five israeli hostages were taken and the mood from staff when they first received those five hostages, kaitlan. >> i think that there was no one in the room that could hold his feelings and stop crying because it was a very emotional and exciting event. they met their families, and they met a very professional team here that was very good prepared to receive those hostages. >> and it was the same thing at the schneider medical center. they said they hadn't slept at all last night. they had been trying to prepare everything perfectly to make sure that it was as sensitive and as comfortable an environment as it could be for these hostages after that ordeal. >> so, four children today. we're learning there is expected to be several children in tomorrow's list. we don't obviously know that until we've seen that happen. but that's what we're hearing. they're going to extra care with these kids. obviously the adults have been through traumatic experience as well. these are kids, some of them lost their parentsment some of them watched this happen when they were abducted on that day. >> and some of them are just learning about the scale and scope of what happened on october 7th. they're just learning they lost their loved ones. and this is something the hospital is very sensitive to. they talk to us about the fact they try to create an ambience and an atmosphere in the specialized unit so it wouldn't feel like a hospital. it wouldn't feel clinical. it wouldn't feel intimidating or overwhelming. they wanted it to feel, in their own words, like a beautiful hotel. they had put a lot of toys there. and most importantly, they had hand picked the staff who are most experience in dealing with childhood trauma. they had the top psychiatrists. they had social workers, a social worker for every single family that was admitted. so, really trying to go above and beyond to be as sensitive as possible. and understanding the reality, that the trauma is real and that the children who emerge from those helicopters are probably very different children than they were seven weeks ago when they were first taken hostage. >> it's hard to even think about the road that they have ahead of them. clarissa ward, thank you. and of course that is just the beginning of this. israel has now confirmed the identity of these 13 citizens that were released today. obviously children among them. they are all women and children. they were held for nearly seven weeks. yafa ader is 85 years old. she was the oldest person to be taken hostage on october 7th. she lived on kibbutz nir oz, along with 11 other hostages that were also released today. that kibbutz saw some of the most severe damage on that day. a fourth of its residents were kidnapped or killed. margalit mozes is a 77-year-old mother of three, grandmother of ten. she's a cancer survivor who has diabetes. 75-year-old hannah perry, a diabetic and a mother of three. one of her children was murdered on october 7th. another tonight is still being held by hamas. some of the youngest hostages were also among those who were freed today. as you heard clarissa mention there, 9-year-old ahad monder, who celebrated his birthday last month in captivity. he and his mother and grandmother were released today. his grandfather is still believed to be being held by hamas tonight. daniel aloni and her 5-year-old daughter emilia are back in israel. they have -- the last danielle's family heard from her was a message on whatsapp that said, quote, help, we are dying. aviv and raz also back in israel tonight. her husband last heard from her the day of that attack when she called him to say there were terrorists inside her mother's home. also 76-year-old hanna katzir, 72-year-old adina moshe also among those released today. a lot of happy news for those families of those hostages who are now back and safe and being medically evaluated. i'm joined by idf spokesman major duron spielman. thank you so much for being here tonight, sir. what do we know, as these hostages have been reunited with their families but also taken to hospitals and medical centers. what do we know about their conditions right now? >> thank you for having me. the physical side of the hostages, thank god, seems to be pretty much in order. none of them have life-threatening ailments that was identified at the initial medical check. now, i think, as you very covered it so well, they're going to be going through a mental roller coaster. again, this is the side that we don't see. this is the side that's going to take time to unfold. they're reuniting with their families. and these are all people who do not know the extent of october 7th. what the entire world knows, these 13 people and the other 11 foreign nationals, do not understand what has happened. the conflict, the more than 1,000 people that were killed, their relatives that were missing and killed that they don't have homes to go back to. this is what these people have to go through. and it is going to be a process from a health perspective that's going to be unfolding. and as a nation, we're going to be embracing these people. and then we have to realize tomorrow and the next day and the next day, as god willing this moves forward, we'll need had to multiply this again and again. i think this is a challenge that few countries have had to deal with on this type of scale. and that's what we're trying to prepare for. >> given how long that process is going to take, i mean, what kind of services is israel prepared to offer to these hostages, as you're not just in the short-term but dealing with the long-term trauma of what they've just been through? >> these people will be taken care of in many ways for life. israel, unfortunately, is not new to trauma. we've had rocket attacks from hamas for, you know, 20, 30,000 rockets. we have many people who have gone through trauma and shock, maybe not to this degree. and israel unfortunately knows this area very, very well. when it comes to this, we provide ongoing support, counseling, financial support. and there is a community of families in this country that are survivors of terrorism that come and work with these families. and they almost joined a community of people that gives them support. it is one of the strongest parts of israel. this is perseverance. and we embrace these people when these horrible things happen. again, what we're hoping for, as you mentioned, it's a bittersweet moment. i think those are the correct words. here we're going to be working day and night for years to come with these people. we don't know where the other 220 hostages are. and when this pause ends, we're going to go back to our operational goal of trying to defeat hamas. in order to put pressure on them to hopefully enable those people to come home as well. >> before this pause is over, if all expectations go as planned right now, there are still 37 more hostages at least, maybe more nationals, as we saw several of these other nationals also being released that were also being held hostage today. based on how the first round go, what is your assessment of how the next hostages that are expected to be released in just a matter of hours from now, tomorrow, how that's going to go? any issues that you have seen on the horizon? >> i think the biggest fear is that hamas is going to break this framework, break this truce. we certainly are upholding it. the idf are not firing. we're not in an offensive position. we're in a defensive position. hamas has insisted that we're not doing surveillance. they're up to no good, obviously. they're not turning into a human rights organization overnight. and the biggest fear is that this truce will be broken by them because we will protect any israeli civilian. from an ongoing perspective, we will be evaluating the physical and mental health of everybody that cops out of there. and it's also important to know, trying to gather more and more intelligence, what is the fate of all those other people in gaza, including the americans and the other 20 countries that are represented. that is what we're here for. it's somewhat spontaneous, and we're going to have to deal with the punches as they come. but we are positioned to do so. we have the professional staff. and we are experienced. that is exactly what we'll try to do. >> obviously these hostages are processing a lot, the ones that are back in israel tonight. have you learned anything from them about the condition of how those other hostages are being held, if they were indeed kept underground, anything about what the last several weeks have been like for them? >> it's going to be an ongoing process. we are, of course, going to be debriefing every single one of these hostages, but it has to be done so delicately because they were certainly kept in the dark. otherwise we would have seen them. most of them, with that hamas video that you showed and correctly explained that it's a propaganda piece. we notice, hamas only shows us when the people are coming out of the cars and they're carrying those elderly women and putting those arms around ohad. those same people dragged them into gaza. and we don't see the journey of those people. those people were taken from the heart of gaza, southern gaza most likely, underneath the ground, taken out from tunnels that go for miles and miles until they reached daylight, until their eyes adjusted. and then they were taken in the car. only when hamas found that last 30 seconds did they show that video. so, the trauma that these people have been through is probably something none of us could imagine. it's going to take time to unfold. and when we're able to assess this from an intelligence point of view and debrief them, we'll do so. and of course we will act on that and will improve our success, hopefully, at bringing the rest of the hostages home. >> can you confirm what we're hearing that israel has, indeed, gotten that list of names that are expected to be part of the hostages released tomorrow? >> i've been hearing the media reports just like yourself. i don't have the specifics. it would follow reason, similar to yesterday. and what happens is an ongoing process, where certain families are ultimately notified. this is, as we can imagine, such a tense process because you have the families of 230 people, all of whom are waiting for their children, for their wives, for their mothers, for their grandmothers, and therefore the process has to be done with enormous sensitivity to prepare the family whose relatives are hopefully coming home. and also prepare them that until they're in their hands, nothing is for sure. we do not trust hamas. as the president of the united states said, hamas doesn't give a damn about these people, and i quote him, and he's correct. therefore, we prepare them. until they're in their hands, we don't know. and we have to support the other families. also at the same time the relatives are not on that list. this is a horrific situation. it harkens back to lists of world war ii and the holocaust, who's in and owho isn't. but there's a ray of hope, which is that we're getting some of our people home. >> certainly a bittersweet moment for some of these families. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you very much. the other exchange that we saw happening today that was also part of this deal, three palestinian prisoners in israel being released for every single freed hostage. that is part of this agreement. today we saw 39 of them returning, being released from being held in israeli prisons. cnn's nima elbagir is in east jerusalem. what more do we know about these 39 palestinian prisoners and what it was like when they were released today? >> reporter: that's a great question. unfortunately, for palestinian familie families, they have not been able to express the joy that so many of us have watched the hostage families express. because israel's national security minister issued a dictate, which has been successful to varying degrees. in the west bank, they weren't able to control the palestinian members. any palestinian expressing joy over the return of these prisoners, that that was in and of itself a terrorist act because he said, these are terrorists. therefore, this is a celebration of a terrorist victory. except when you look through the list, kaitlan, by the israeli government's own reckoning, out of the 24 women released and the 15 minors, most of them were detained for extensive periods of time, in some cases without any charge. six of them were under administrative detention, which allows israel to just continue holding palestinians indefinitely. and of those who were sentenced, there's a lot of concern around how those trials went forward. a young lady who is from east jerusalem here, at 16, israeli officers said they searched her bag and found a knife. she was sentenced to jail for convicted murder. and her parents have spent all these years trying to get this to the israeli supreme court. today, when her mother was welcoming her home, she could not do it outside. and i want to take a look at this video, kaitlan. this is the moment that mother and daughter were reunited . [ screaming ] you can hear the anguish, the hopelessness and, kind of, joy that perhaps is almost, in a way, sad because you didn't expect this government, these ministers, are demonizing palestinian pain and establishing that they are terrorists so that they can make no distinction between hamas and palestinian civilians, kaitlan. >> you can almost see just the disbelief in the mom's face there, as she's being reunited with her. nima elbagir, it's quite a moment. thank you for that report. up next, i'll speak to one of the families of the hostages who was not included in today's release. they are continuing to hold out hope that their loved ones will come home. right after a quick break. . as many families are being reunited with their loved ones, for others tonight, the anguish is continuing because they are still waiting on the word of the fate of their loved ones, who are still being held hostage by hamas in gaza tonight. joining me is one of those families. his sister and her two daughters were rescued by idf soldiers on october 7th. but hamas is still holding his brother-in-law, henri, hostage in gaza. and he joins me tonight. i can't even imagine the mixed emotions that you and your family felt, as you watched these 13 israeli hostages, the thai nationals, the filipino, all making it back to israel tonight. what was that like for you? >> i think, for us, for me, it was relatively happy day in the midst of this ongoing tragedy, nightmare we're experiencing, because we saw finally some development of releasing a significant number of hostages. seeing these people, some of the most vulnerable hostages returning home. but with the happen is it's mixed with our personal agony and despair for the fact henri will not be returning home and most likely not any time soon. he will not be included in this deal. and many like henri -- and i speak on their behalf today as well -- are still waiting for their day, like purgatory, if you may, waiting for the sentence of whether they can return home or not. >> i know you met with red cross officials today. did they give you any indication of a hope of, you know, whether or not they will actually be able to go and tend to these other hostages who are not being released? there's been some skepticism in israel about whether or not that contact will actually happen. >> i met with the head delegate of icnc to the u.n. earlier this week, not today. at the time, they were showing us what they are doing in order to ensure they can receive proof of