A Sudanese national was fatally stabbed during a brawl in the coastal city of Netanya on Thursday morning, in what was the third violent murder in Israel within a matter of hours.

The 40-year-old man was stabbed in Netanya’s outdoor market during a heated confrontation with a fellow Sudanese national, according to local news outlet NetanyaNet.

First responders from Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah were called to the scene of the brawl, where they found the victim suffering from penetrating wounds and heavy blood loss, the news outlet said.

He was taken to the city’s Laniado Hospital while undergoing initial medical treatment and, after failed resuscitation efforts, was pronounced dead.

The Israel Police announced that a suspect, also a Sudanese national, had been arrested at the scene and taken for questioning at the Netanya Police station.

A law enforcement spokesman said officers planned to request to extend the suspect’s detention.

The incident was the latest in a spate of violence that has erupted in Israel in recent days.

It also came hours after a 53-year-old woman was found dead in her Bat Yam home by paramedics, in what initially appeared to be the second incident of deadly domestic violence in the central Israel city within days.

The woman’s 52-year-old husband was initially arrested as a suspect in the case, as the cause of death was not immediately clear.

He was released after several hours, however, Hebrew media reported that, after it was concluded that there were no signs of violence involved in her death.

The Kan public broadcaster reported that the woman’s husband had phoned Magen David Adom upon waking up and discovering that she was unresponsive.

According to the report, an initial pathological examination indicates that her death was the result of excessive alcohol intake and drug overdose.

The incident came days after a 51-year-old woman was found stabbed to death — presumably by her recently estranged husband — in her Bat Yam apartment.

The husband jumped to his death from the roof of the apartment building following an hours-long standoff with police.

The last several days have seen a spate of murders in Israel, including the murder of a 14-year-old in the southern Israel town of Ararat an-Naqab on Thursday morning. Hours earlier, 38-year-old Issa Frija was shot dead outside his home in the central city of Kafr Qasim.

In total, 105 people have been killed in the Arab community so far this year, according to the Abraham Initiatives, which tracks the violence.

The tally is significantly higher than the 88 killings that took place to this point last year, according to the group.

Earlier in the week, two men were shot dead in the city in a separate crime gang-related slaying. Then on Monday, on the same day that the woman in Bat Yam was stabbed to death in her home, two men were killed by a car bomb in the Arab Israeli town of Jaljulia.

Meanwhile, a 30-year-old man was shot and killed in Netanya in what appeared to be a criminal dispute, while a 20-year-old man was shot and killed in Lod the day before. Three suspects were arrested in connection with that killing. Police said the Lod shooting was also apparently part of a criminal dispute.

Also Sunday, a mother and her young son were found dead after a fire erupted in their home in the city of Modiin, in what police were investigating as a murder-suicide.

The unrelenting crime wave has worsened considerably over the past two years since the installation of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose portfolio includes the police. Much of the deadly violence has happened in the Arab Israeli community.

Ben Gvir has remained silent throughout the past few days despite the high number of murders.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.