Israeli military officials said Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian woman who opened fire on her during an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus early Thursday.
The military said it was carrying out an operation to arrest a wanted suspect when armed men began firing on the troops. It said one of the gunmen was killed. The military said no soldiers were injured and the suspect was arrested.
The Palestinian official, Wafa, identified the man as Bakir Muhammad Musa Hashash, 21, who said he was critically wounded and later died after clashes with the military.
The incident comes after a spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence in recent weeks.
A Palestinian gunman opened fire in a car filled with Jewish seminary students next to a West Bank settlement outpost last month. Yehuda Dimentman, 25, was killed and two others wounded near Homesh, which is considered illegal by the Israeli government.
A Palestinian attacker stabbed and seriously wounded an ultra-Orthodox Jew outside Jerusalem's Old City last month. Just over a week before that, a Hamas militant opened fire in the Old City, killing an Israeli man.
There is a rise in settler violence against Palestinians, particularly in the northern West Bank.
In 1967 Israel captured East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the Mideast war, and the territories are now home to over 700,000 Israeli settlers. The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal obstacles to peace.
Palestinians seek east Jerusalem and the West Bank as parts of a future independent state, along with the Gaza Strip that Israel withdrew from in 2005.