A 28-year-old mother of two was shot and killed early Friday in the Israeli Arab town of Kalansua, in the third shooting death in the Arab triangle of towns and villages in the Sharon region in the last 24 hours.

Emergency crews arriving at the scene provided preliminary treatment to the woman, who sustained gunshot wounds to her upper torso.

Open gallery view Police vehicles at a crime scene. Credit: Moti Milrod / Archive

The woman, who was shot with both her children present, was then evacuated to nearby Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava, where she was pronounced dead. None of the children were harmed in the incident.

Police investigators are looking into several possible motivations for the shooting, including the possibility that the killing was somehow related to two other shooting deaths that occurred in the nearby Israeli Arab town of Tira the previous night.

Other possible motivations looked into by investigators are that the incident may have been a revenge attack, or that it was a so-called "honor killing."

Friday's shooting incident came after two Tira residents were shot to death on Thursday evening in two separate incidents.

Police are investigating to see if there is a connection between the murders of the two male residents, one age 35 and the other age 38.

The 35-year-old resident arrived at a medical clinic in the city in critical condition after the first shooting. He was then taken to Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava, where he succumbed to his wounds.

Several minutes later, the 38-year-old was shot at a café in the town. When police arrived on the scene, the victim was in critical condition. He also succumbed to his wounds shortly after arriving at Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava.