The Department of Foreign Affairs has denied claims that Australian Federal Police officers were involved in a hit-and-run car accident in Tel Aviv early this morning.

The agents allegedly ploughed into a cyclist just hours after landing in Israel to investigate how three forged Australian passports were used in the assassination of top Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

The agents were trying to give waiting media the slip when their silver armoured Toyota Prado allegedly hit Israeli cyclist Oshra Bar and failed to stop.

However a DFAT spokesman this afternoon denied there was a collision.

"According to the embassy driver and passenger, no contact was made by the embassy car with the cyclist," a spokesman said.