The Palestinian Ministry of Health said the alleged assailant died from gunshot wounds to the chest.
His last hunger strike began on February 5 after an Israeli army force stormed his house in Arraba, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested him for the sixth time.
The attack came a day after the Israeli Army murdered nine Palestinians in a raid in Jenin, West Bank area.
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while trying to report on an arrest operation by Israeli Security Forces in the northern occupied West Bank.
Mohammad El Halabi, director of the U.S.-based Christian charity World Vision, has already been in detention for the past six years.
Five suspects were arrested by Israeli armed forces when crossing the border fence from Jordan.
At least one Palestinian was killed and another was injured during a raid by Israeli forces in northern West Bank city of Jenin overnight.
The Israeli army has begun sealing off the Palestinian territories ahead of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar.
