The IDF has also said that it will not be possible to free all hostages through military operations.
When Mr Netanyahu said that “Hamas will pay a price” for killing the hostages, it means that the hostages will also pay, Mr Dickmann said.
“If you ask me if I want the guard who shot Carmel in the head to die or if I prefer even one hostage to get out I will of course choose the life of a hostage.”
Ms Gat was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri, where she was visiting her parents, Eshel and Kinneret, on Oct 7.
Mr Dickmann said that Ms Gat witnessed her mother, Kinneret, being killed as she was kidnapped: “Two other hostages who were with her that day told us, after they were released, that she saw her mother being killed through the window in the car.”