Erik Wirkensjo, spokesman for Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallstrom, told AFP she had wanted to meet both Israeli and Palestinian officials during her visit from Thursday to Saturday.
"This time it was not possible to visit Israel," Wirkensjo said.
Asked why there were no meetings planned, he said such questions must be "asked to the Israelis".
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon blamed "schedule problems" and declined to provide further details.
There is no international airport in the Palestinian territories. Wirkensjo declined to comment on whether Wallstrom would fly to an Israeli airport and then travel to the occupied West Bank or go via Jordan.
She was not denied entry to Israel, he said.
Wallstrom will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and foreign minister Riad al-Malki during her trip.
In January, Israel's deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely said Wallstrom would no longer be welcome in the country after she called for investigations into the killings of Palestinian assailants by Israeli forces.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Wallstrom's call as "outrageous".
Israeli forces have faced accusations that they used excessive force in some cases in which knife-wielding Palestinians were killed.
A wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks erupted in October 2015, but the violence has greatly subsided in recent months.
Since October 2015, 242 Palestinians, 36 Israelis, two Americans, a Jordanian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese have been killed, according to an AFP count.
Wallstrom has repeatedly enraged Israel, starting with Sweden's recognition of a Palestinian state shortly after she became foreign minister in October 2014.
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