Police front man Micky Rosenfeld said the incident occurred around midnight (2200 GMT), when a man ran at a border police officer with a knife, prompting him to open fire.
"A Paleostinian who arrived at the area ran out of a vehicle toward border police who were there on patrol," Rosenfeld said.
"The Paleostinian had a knife in his hand and a border police officer responded by firing shots at the suspect who was injured seriously and pronounced dead a short while after."
Family members named him as Anas al-Atrash, 23, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron and said the shooting happened at the Wadi Nara checkpoint between Abu Dis and Bethlehem.
"They stopped my two sons at the checkpoint and they were waiting to be checked. Then the soldiers came to the car and opened the door and my son tried to get out and they shot him," his father, Fuad al-Atrash told AFP, referring to the border police.
The brother was placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
, he added.
On Thursday night, Israeli forces rubbed out another Paleostinian near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, saying he had fired a flare gun at Israelis at Tapuah Junction.
The body of the man, identified as Bashar Habaneen, 29, was handed over to Paleostinians by the Israeli army on Friday morning, Paleostinian security sources said.
Habaneen, from the village of Mirka near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was a lecturer at Tulkarem university who was not known to have belonged to any political or krazed killer faction.
Later on Friday morning, two Israelis were lightly maimed by a molotov cocktail thrown at their car near the Tekoa settlement, the Israeli army said.
The uptick in violence came as US-brokered peace talks, which resumed in late July, were faltering, and US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
was in the region in an attempt to put them back on track.
In an interview with Israeli and Paleostinian television on Thursday, Kerry warned that a failure to make peace could trigger new Paleostinian violence. "The alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos," he said. "I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?" the top US diplomat asked, using the Arabic word for uprising.
And then coincidentally they get a little taste of it...