>> i'm gillian turner in for martha. breaking right now on this special edition of "the story," we're learning more about the two dozen hostages released by hamas. here's red cross vans carrying them to safety a short while ago. among them, 13 israelis including young mothers like danielle and her mother, daron asher and her daughters. now, to the dismay of many people today, no americans have been freed as originally thought. president biden says he doesn't know as of now when they will be. meanwhile, prime minister benjamin netanyahu's senior adviser is standing by to give us more details. we begin first with fox team coverage, lucas tomlinson with president biden in nantucket. first, trey yingst on the ground in southern israel. >> here at the air base, some of those released hostages are receiving the first medical treatment in israel before they are taken to other regional hospitals. this has been a day of anticipation. so many across this country waiting to see if their loved ones would get to safety and if the cease fire would hold. this all started this morning at 7:00 a.m. local time. the cease fire went in to place. it was violated one time. it did hold. ultimately the 13 israelis were released in to the hands of the red cross. they went in to egypt and made their way in to israel. additionally there were a group of 11 foreign nationals that were released from hamas custody as part of a separate deal today. also returning to israel where they were met by embassy staff mainly from thailand. as this is taking place, there's questions about if this process will play out tomorrow. we're getting the names and the faces of these individuals that got out today. you mentioned the 9-year-old that marked his birthday in gaza. he was released with his grandmother. so many families from the small community that sits just over the border from gaza. dozens of people were taken hostage. 13 released. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's hopeful today that more hostages will get released tomorrow and had this to say about the situation. >> i emphasize to you the families to you and the citizens of israel, we are committed to the return of all of our hostages. this is one of the goal of the war and we're committed to achieving all of the goals of the war. >> this is a temporary pause in the fighting. a cease fire negotiated by the qataris. when that is done, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has made very clear that they will resume their campaign against hamas inside gaza. gillian? >> trey, a short while ago, president biden was asked by a reporter, he says he doesn't have any information about the condition of the remaining american hostages. have you heard anything on the israeli side from your sources there about the condition of the americans or any of the hostages in hamas captivity? >> so the short answer is no. the israelis didn't even have information on the condition of these 13 hostages that were released today until they made it in to the hands of the red cross. that's been part of the challenge here. in these negotiations, it appears that israel would push to ensure the red cross had access to the other hostages including american citizens inside gaza. that didn't happen. there was new pressure on the negotiation. but they went forward and the 13 were released today. my producer just handed me this right now. it appears at this moment, an update we're getting in just now, the israelis have received the list of the hostages that will be released tomorrow. this is a piece of good news. because the list was due earlier this evening. it was not delivered by hamas. again, we can confirm at this hour israel has received the names of the hostages that will be released tomorrow. if all goes as planned, we can expect to see a dozen or more released back in to israel as part of this larger cease fire deal. gillian? >> thank you. important news there, trey. we appreciate it. thank you. let's go live to tel aviv. ambassador mark regev. he's an adviser to prime minister netanyahu. let's pick up where we left off with trey. we hear that your side has now received the list of the hostages to be released tomorrow. can you offer any comment on the list? do you have any reaction? >> i haven't seen it yet. i have to tell you when we received the list yesterday, we kept it private. we didn't tell anyone except for the families involved. we asked them to keep it a secret. we'll probably do the same now. these lists are coming from the hamas side. we don't put them together. the agreement that the americans helped us negotiation, the agreement specifies the next four-day period we're going to receive 50 hostages. the focus is on children and women. and that's all i can say. we have to look at the list we received today and make sure that hamas is in fact keeping its part of the arrangement and the list does include women and children. >> mr. ambassador, did anything about the process unfold today take you by surprise or disappoint your side here? >> well, because we are -- have very low expectations of hamas, the mere fact that it worked today and we did get 13 israelis out, that is a pleasant surprise. there's something important that has to be said here. hamas released six elderly women and at the same time released children. a 2-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 5-year-old and a 9-year-old. now, hamas in all of its public statements said in their horrendous attacks were against military targets. their words, not mine. and yet they're releasing today elderly women and children under the age of 10, one as young as 2 years old. what does that say about hamas' lie that their attack on october 7th was against military targets? you can't take at face value anything that hamas says. they still despite the releases today deny that they attacked and murdered and kidnapped until civilians october 7. >> why is it, sir, that hamas decided to prioritize the release of elderly women and young children? certainly not for humanitarian reasons as they have claimed. what is your assessment there of the strategic reasons behind the decision? >> well, first of all, you're 100% correct. hamas is not morale organization or new boy scouts. they're a vicious, brutal, fanatical organization. we saw this when they invaded my country and burned babies alive and lined people in the air and just machine gunned them. terrible things. beheadings, rapes, terrible crimes against humanity. so they haven't changed who they are. they are despicable and they are really enemies of all humanity. if they have decided to cooperate in the release of hostages, it's because of the pressure they're under. who is applying that pressure? the brave young men and women of this israeli defense forces. our soldiers who have been delivering blow after blow. they are taking apart hamas' military team. hamas is desperate for a time-out. they want to see an end to the blows that the israeli military is inflicting on them. they know because we said it publicly, we will only agree to this sort of humanitarian pause if they release hostages. so we force them to release the hostages. that's a good thing. >> mr. ambassador, two surprise elements for the american public seemingly for the american government as well. that is that no americans were released. we initially had been under the impression that three would be released potentially today. also the release of these additional hostages, 12 thai nationals and one filipino included in that number. any sense of what went on with either of those developments? any sense of why that occurred? was your side taken by surprise of that? >> we weren't taken by surprised. we know that the thais were speaking to the iranians. as you know, iran is the primary funder of hamas. they have a 93% of hamas military budget comes from tehran. it's part of the axis of terror that includes the houthis, hezbollah. that's the axis that they belong to. it's clear if hamas asks iran too to something, they will do it. on the question about the americans, i'm hopeful that we'll see that young american girl freed. she fits in to all the categories. she's young. she needs to be prioritized. and i hope that she gets out very, very soon. >> the president, president biden said a few moments ago that he suspects october 7th happened when it did because he was getting very close, the u.s. was getting very close to a peace bridge with saudi arabia. do you share that assessment? >> we do indeed. the president is right. we have no doubt one of the reasons hamas launched their attack is the fear that israel and saudi arabia were about to normalize relations and establish peaceful ties between the two countries. and while the whole world, yes, america, canada, europe, everyone supports that peace break through in the middle east, for hamas, for iran, for hezbollah, for the axis of terror, that sort of peace break-through is an existential threat. why we all want to see peace and progress and prosperity and cooperation, they, iran, hamas, hezbollah, they want to see a new dark age. they want to see the middle east turn inward into this era of fanaticism, of extremism. of taking us back to a dark period in history. no, we have to defeat them, we have to unite with the modern and pragmatic arab countries and form a pro peace, pro cooperation alliance. that's what we stand for. we have to defeat hamas. >> i need to ask you, i'm wondering if you have any concerns that as hamas releases hostages, those people who remain in captivity potentially become more valuable hostages to the terror organization? >> so you're right in your question yet again. because if we celebrated today the release of 13 and the expectation is over the next three days we'll see another 37 hostages releases and that is the deal. they have to release 50 in the first four days, there are still over 100 left behind. it's bittersweet. we're happy for the families of those that have seen their loved ones return. we're with the families of those that still got loved ones stuck in gaza, prisoners of these terrible hamas terrorists. let me say here, we will not rest. we will not rest until every last hostage is released. it's an integral part of our operation, the release of the hostages and we will continue to apply military pressure on hamas. all the hostages will come home. >> mr. ambassador, thanks for taking time with us on this very important day. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> well, those 24 hostages released from hamas captivity today after 48 days, president biden says he doesn't know when hamas can be expected to free the americans that remain held. more on that next. my dad believed in hard work, and the farm was the perfect place to learn grit, determination and problem solving. we're taking that passion and channeling it through our farm to home bedding bath, and apparel at red land cotton. we grow cotton in the rich red earth of north alabama. and we want our products to be made here in the usa, from the seed in the ground to the final stitch. go to red land cotton dot com and receive 20% off your order with code fox 20 >> gillian: fox news confirms that israel has a list of hostages set to be released tomorrow. president biden said he didn't know when to expect americans could be freed. lucas tomlinson is in nantucket covering the president. what are you hearing from the white house, lucas? >> gillian, president biden has remarked just moments ago, said while this is just a started, he said this is off to a good start. none of the hostages freed today are american. president biden was very candid when he was asked just when are these american hostages coming home. >> we don't know when that will occur. we're go -- we expect it to occur. we don't know what the list of all of the hostages are and when they'll be released. we know the numbers that will be released. it's my hope and expectation it will be soon. i don't trust hamas to do anything right. i only trust hamas to respond to pressure. >> officials say there's up to ten americans that still remain captainive inside gaza this evening. president biden said that american diplomacy helped get the americans freed. over 200 remain captainive in gaza. 37 are supposed to be released in the coming days. biden thanked the amir of qatar and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the president says he expected more hostages to be released in the coming days and three americans and the little girl, abigail adan that just turned four today. >> hundreds more are getting in position as well ready to enter gaza to support the innocent palestinians that are suffering greatly because of this war that hamas unleashed. hamas doesn't give a damn about them. >> so forceful response from president biden. it's worth noting on thanksgiving day, u.s. forces in the middle east were attacked four times bringing the total to 73 attacks on our troops in the middle east over the past month. gillian? >> gillian: thanks, lucas. thank you. let's go ahead and bring in the spokesperson for the israeli consulate in new york. ambassador regev characterized everything as bittersweet. he said it's a wonderful day for the families and hostages that were freed and highlights the plight that is still ahead for the remaining people, israelis and foreigners in hamas captivity. how are you feeling? >> i think i described it pretty well. it is bittersweet. for me personally, i find some comfortable. some of the hostages that i already know very well from posters around new york city and some information that i read about to finally see them again and why know some are not all right and taken to a hospital for treatment. certainly a ray of light in this very dark time. yeah, we are also very concerned and worried for the more than 200 hostages that are still in gaza. we hope that the next few days we will see the release of more of them. we can't know for sure until they're actually crossing in to the border to israel. hamas has proven time after time that they're not following their words. >> gillian: i'm curious what you think of president biden -- i don't know if you got a chance to hear president biden's remarks a few moments ago. i'll play a sound bite from him here where he talks about why october 7th unfolded the way it did. why he believes not based on intelligence, he says it happened when it did. i'd like to get your response on the other side. >> i can not prove what i'm about to say. i believe one of the reasons why hamas struck when they did, they knew i was working very closely with the saudis and others in the region to bring peace to the region by having recognition of israel and israel's right to exist. >> does that assessment square with what you know about that day? >> 100%. we know about the linkage between hamas and iran. we know that for iran, the worst scenario is to have normal sayings between the two biggest foes in the middle east, saudi arabia and israel. so you don't have to be -- you don't have to have hard proof. you only have to have this proof about -- although we do have hard proof about the iranian involvement and what is their motive. i think that they did it intentionally because they wanted to create a public opinion problem for israel in the arab world. they're succeeding with it. we're seeing demonstrations of people in most of the arab countries including saudi arabia. in the long run, it will achieve the opposite of what they wanted. saudi arabia and the rest of the arab world now see very well, they see it in front of their eyes that we have the same enemies. even the houthis from saudi arabia's biggest enemies and attacking israel right now. what is more clear than the fact that there's one destabilizer in the middle east, it's iran and we have to unify and the against them. >> gillian: so we learned a moment before you joined us that the israelis had received the list of hostages that hamas claims to be planning to release tomorrow. would you characterize that -- how would you characterize that? is that a positive development or skeptical of it? >> it's a positive development in the sense that we see that they have and intention of releasing more hostages tomorrow. like i said before, we can't -- we can't really trust anything that comes from hamas. one of the women that was released today, she was already declared by hamas as deceased. so we can't take their word. we also heard there will be americans in this batch. there wasn't. there weren't. so we can't really trust it. we just have to wait and see until they cross the border. the government of israel also is not issuing any statement regarding the hostages -- hamas is stating that will be released. we don't want anybody to be disappointed and friend false information. >> gillian: okay. thanks, itay. we appreciate you being here as always. >> thank you. >> gillian: spokesperson for the idf says so far the hostages did not show signs of life threatening medical emergencies. very good news. coming up, we're going to disclose more of the details behind that reporting. but i'm also a mother of four. and as entrepreneurs, we weigh the cost of every decision. medical bills are no longer a worry for our family. so i can focus on my calling and our family. joining christian health care ministries was one of the best decisions we ever made. we're the blair family, and this is our chm story. choose your doctor without network restrictions. all at an affordable price. enroll anytime at chministries.org/enroll. honey, i think i heard something. ok. ♪ from christmas tree mats... to floorliners... cargo liners.... no drill mud flaps... seat protectors... and more... weathertech has the perfect holiday gift. honey, is everything ok? 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>> gillian, we've been moved around a bit. we're in tel aviv right now. the israeli gift confirmed that they had a list of names who was coming on. they didn't want the names out there. they're in the process of calling the families of the hostages to let them know who is on it and who is not.