India, March 2 -- PM Benjamin Netanyahu's office has admitted that the premier's intelligence officers had received an Israel Defense Forces memo that shared details about suspicious Hamas activities, three hours before the group launched an attack on the country.

However, the office did not share details about the memo.

The premier's office argued that this was justified given what it said was the document's non-urgent framing, reported The Times of Israel.

The admission came in response to a Channel 12 report that said the IDF had drafted a document setting out the numerous worrying signs of Hamas activity in Gaza that night and sent it out to the intelligence officers of seven key Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu and then-defens...