Which Reaction To The Hamas Attack On Israel?

Over 40,000 Gazans have been killed, and
many more injured, among the over 800,000
who live in an area much smaller than
Rockingham County.

I see four Torah-based responses Israel could have considered in its response to the October 7 terrorist attack:

1. Choosing to simply show love for their fellow Semitic neighbors, treating them and other sojourners among them the way they would want to be treated.

You shall not hate your brother or sister in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbors, lest you incur sin because of them. You shall not take vengeance or bear grudges against the offspring of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:17-18

God ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing. So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.   Deuteronomy 10:18-19 

2. Letting God take revenge on evildoers. 

It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them. The LORD will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.   Deuteronomy 32:35-36

3. If meting out justice, never exacting more than an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth, whether an offense involving an alien or a citizen.

Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death. You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.  Leviticus 24:19-22

4. Taking vengeance in their own hands, as in the story of the ancient Midianites. 

So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the Lord's vengeance on them." Numbers 31:1-3

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Here's the perspective of one Jewish writer Naomi Klein: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel