A Palestinian man has rammed his car into an Israeli soldier, seriously injuring her, before he was shot dead by Israeli police in the occupied West Bank.
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He was the fourth Palestinian killed in a series of violent incidents throughout Tuesday.
It was the latest bloodshed in a mounting surge of Israeli-Palestinian violence after a Jerusalem bombing last week that killed two Israelis.
The violence began overnight near the city of Hebron, where fighting erupted between Israeli forces and residents.
The Israeli army said clashes erupted after two army vehicles got stuck due to mechanical issues.
It said soldiers opened fire after Palestinians hurled rocks and explosives and Palestinian gunmen also opened fire.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Mufid Khalil, 44, was killed and at least eight other people were wounded by Israeli fire.
In a separate incident, two brothers were killed by Israeli fire during clashes with troops near the village of Kafr Ein, west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank, early on Tuesday.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa identified them as Jawad and Dhafr Rimawi, 22 and 21.
The Israeli military said troops operating in the village came under attack from suspects throwing rocks and firebombs, and soldiers responded with live fire.
Later on Tuesday, a Palestinian driver rammed his car into an Israeli pedestrian near a West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem in what the army said was a deliberate attack.
Security camera footage showed the vehicle turning around and slowing in front of the woman, before accelerating and running her over.
She was thrown into the air as the driver sped away.
The Israeli army later confirmed the seriously injured woman is a soldier.
Police chased the driver and shot him.
The man, identified as Rani Abu Ali, 45, from the West Bank town of Beitunia, was pronounced dead at a Jerusalem hospital.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been surging for months amid nightly Israeli raids in the West Bank, prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis that killed 19 people in the northern hemisphere spring.
Australian Associated Press
