Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian gunman during a raid that set off clashes in the flashpoint town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medical officials and militant groups say.
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The Palestinian health ministry said one of its staff, a woman, was also seriously injured.
The dead 32-year-old was a senior operative with Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, according to relatives.
Israel's military said soldiers came under fire, and shot back, during a mission to arrest suspected members of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad faction.
A gun and a dozen bombs were also captured in the operation, during which a soldier was lightly wounded, the military statement said.
Israeli forces blew up a house belonging to the dead man's family and another bakery, according to witnesses.
Violence in the West Bank has worsened in the past 15 months with stepped-up Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.
Israel captured the West Bank, which Palestinians hope will form the core of a future independent state, in a 1967 war.
It is among territories where the Palestinians seek to establish a state.
Israel has since settled the territory, while the Palestinians are split between a Western-backed administration and armed Hamas Islamists who reject coexistence with Israel.
Australian Associated Press
