Activists protesting against the separation barrier have clashed with soldiers in Nilin since 2007 [AFP]
Aqel Srur, 35, died after suffering a gunshot wound to the heart, those at the scene said.
A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers during a protest in the West Bank village of Nilin against Israel's separation barrier, Palestinian medics and witnesses have said.
An Israeli military spokesman said that troops in the area has used "riot dispersal means," a term used to include rubber-coated metal bullets although not live ammunition.
Srur died after being evacuated to a hospital in the nearby Palestinian city of Ramallah.
Witnesses said Israeli troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and possibly live rounds at rock-throwing demonstrators in the village.
Another protester, aged 15, was wounded by the Israeli forces, the medics said.
Ruling ignored
About 200 people, including Israeli and foreign activists as well as Palestinians, took part in the demonstration.
Activists protesting against Israel's construction of the West Bank barrier have clashed with soldiers nearly every Friday outside Nilin and nearby Bilin for more than two years.
Israel says the projected 723km of steel and concrete walls, fences and barbed wire is needed for security.
The Palestinians view it as a land grab that undermines their right to a state.
To date Israel has built 57 per cent of the projected barrier, most of it inside the occupied West Bank.
The International Court of Justice issued a non-binding resolution in 2004 calling for parts of the barrier inside the West Bank to be torn down and for further construction in the occupied territory to cease.
Israel has ignored the ruling.
A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces today while protesting the separation wall in the West Bank village of Nilin. Another protester, who is 15, was wounded. 

Aqel Srur, who was 35, died in an ambulance while en route to a local hospital. He had been fatally shot once in the heart. Palestinians were fired upon by Israeli forces after they began to throw stones at the soldiers. Palestinian officials say Srur was shot once with a single round of live ammunition, something an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) spokesperson could not confirm.

According to the spokesperson, the IDF used "riot dispersal means," which included metal bullets coated with rubber and tear gas.

Srur was protesting Israel's separation barrier, which spans 723km and surrounds West Bank cities, separating them from one another. Israel says the separation walls are needed for security reasons, but Palestinians say it turns their villages into prisons. 

Palestinian and international activists have gathered almost every Friday for the last two years to protest the separation barrier in Nilin. In many cases the protests end with violence. In April, Basem Abu Rahmeh, age 30 was shot and killed by Israeli forces, also while protesting the Israeli separation wall in Bilin.

Construction of the wall began in 2002 and is set to surround the West Bank which was annexed by Israel in 1967. In 2004 it was deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice.