A Border Police officer, reservist and soldier from the same family were arrested Monday in southern Israel on suspicion of attempted murder, the Department of Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) said.

The three are suspected of planning the ambush of a man in May, according to the DIPI, a State Attorney’s Office body that probes police on criminal suspicions.

The main suspect is a Border Police officer in his 20s, who had been absent from service for around a year before his arrest, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

The reservist arrested bears the high rank of colonel, the DIPI added. According to Kan, the suspected Border Police officer is the colonel’s son.

The third suspect is a conscript in his 20s, Channel 12 News reported.

The three relatives are suspected to have planned the attempt following a fight between the Border Police officer and a man belonging to the Abu Arar family, a large Bedouin clan in southern Israel, after the two nearly........

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