Well-informed Palestinian sources revealed, at dawn on Tuesday, that the leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, who were assassinated at dawn by the Israeli army, were preparing to travel, accompanied by a delegation from the movement's political bureau, out of the Gaza Strip.

The sources told Al-Quds.com that the assassination of the Jihad leaders took place at a time when members of the movement's political bureau were going to Cairo and from abroad to hold internal and external meetings.

According to the sources, the leaders of the brigades who were assassinated were going with the delegation of the Jihad leaders to Egypt, which informed them yesterday that they could travel from Cairo to abroad.

The sources indicated that the leaders of the brigades had been hiding for a while, and after receiving permission to prepare for travel, they went to their families to say goodbye before they were bombed inside their homes at dawn.

The Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip killed 12 citizens, including 3 leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, they are Jihad Ghannam, Khalil al-Bahtini, and Tariq Izz al-Din.