By Maayan Lubell and Michael Georgy JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's options for hitting Hamas over its deadly incursion
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's options for hitting Hamas over its deadly incursion into Israel could be reined in by concern for the many Israelis seized in the raid, as a nation scarred by past hostage crises faces perhaps its worst one yet. In a dramatic assault launched from Gaza on Saturday, the Palestinian group Hamas stormed into Israeli towns, killing more than 600 Israelis and escaping with dozens of hostages, in the deadliest day for Israel since the 1973 war. Netanyahu has vowed "mighty vengeance" but the fate of the Israeli soldiers, elderly people, women and children taken into Gaza - the numbers are still unclear - complicates how Israel delivers on its promise to hit back hard and fast, while sticking to a longstanding principle of leaving no one behind.