JERUSALEM — A prominent Palestinian official with the Fatah faction died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas and being shoved and struck in the chest by a member of the Israeli security forces during a demonstration in a West Bank village, witnesses said.

The Israeli military said it was reviewing the circumstances leading up to the death of the official, Ziad Abu Ein, 55, who held the rank of minister in the Palestinian Authority although he was not formally a member of the cabinet.

The episode threatened to grow into a crisis between Israel and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority amid calls for a halt in security coordination between the two sides from some Palestinian Authority officials, Hamas and other opponents of the policy, which is unpopular with many Palestinians. In the absence of peace talks, security coordination has been the foundation of relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Apparently in an effort to calm the atmosphere, Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed that an Israeli pathologist and a delegation of pathologists from Jordan would examine the circumstances of Mr. Abu Ein’s death, the Israeli military said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel sent a message to the Palestinian Authority pledging to investigate the event, which was captured on video, and calling for calm.