Mossad knows how to do wet work. It’ll be a black eye on El Sissy if it comes to that. But it’ll be trouble for him with Da Brudderhood if he does anything himself. So the least bad option for him is to quietly green-light Mossad, and then make some angry noises when they finish whacking them and saving any hostages still alive. Blahblahblah Egyptian sovereignty. Blahblahbllah, I wipe my a@@ on the Camp David Accord, etc., etc.
I will argue that if escaped to Egypt they are now long gone to safety in maybe Qatar.
The world and the media are pretending Hamas still exists. Hamas is dead.
“So the least bad option for him is to quietly green-light Mossad, and then make some angry noises when they finish whacking them and saving any hostages still alive.”
Just like when a lot of the Middle East screeched and hollered when Israel took out the Iraqi Osirak reactor back in ‘81.
Behind the scenes, there were undoubtedly glad it happened.