The man was shot and killed after officers saw him advancing with a knife drawn, police said.
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The site has been the scene of multiple attacks on Israelis, and killings of assailants, in previous months.
The man was identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as Saed Amro, 28, a resident of Jordan, according to the Arabic news media.
Palestinian officials had no immediate comment on the incident.
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi condemned Israel’s actions.
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon criticized Ban’s “distorted view of the situation”, saying “the obstacle to peace starts and ends with Palestinian incitement to terrorism” and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to meet with Netanyahu. “We call on the worldwide community to engage rapidly and effectively before it is too late”.
Israel Radio reported that one Palestinian was killed and another seriously wounded after soldiers opened fire on the vehicle as it drove at high speed towards an area where Israelis hitch hike.
On Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Jordanian foreign ministry denounced “the barbaric act of the army of the Israeli occupation, whose premeditated shooting of the Jordanian Saeed Amro. killed him on the spot”. Of them, 143 were identified by authorities as assailants while others were killed during clashes and protests.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.
Since October 2015, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 215 Palestinians, including unarmed demonstrators, bystanders and attackers.
“Because no-one would seriously claim that the almost two million Arabs living inside Israel – that they’re an obstacle to peace”.
No mainstream Israeli politician has ever suggested that those Arabs move to an envisaged Palestinian state under the “two-state” solution promoted by the U.S., European Union and broader global community. Previously there had not been an attack in three weeks.
Palestinian leaders charge that the violence is a result of collapsed peace talks, Israel’s ongoing military occupation of the West Bank and its expansion of settlements on land Palestinians claim as part of their future state.
“Despite warnings by the worldwide community and the region, leaders on both sides have failed to take the hard steps needed for peace”, he said. It was not immediately clear if he was a Jordanian national. Ban also hailed former Israeli president Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding fathers, who suffered a major stroke this week.
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Re: “US, Israel sign $38 billion, 10-year military aid deal”, (TNT, 9/15).
