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Israel stages a deadly large-scale raid on Palestinian Jenin camp in the West Bank

Israeli media said the military also conducted airstrikes, reviving a tactic it had largely halted during the past two decades.

JERUSALEM — Israeli drones struck targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank early Monday and hundreds of troops were deployed in the area, an incursion that resembled the wide-scale military operations carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. Palestinian health officials said at least four Palestinians were killed.

Troops remained inside the Jenin refugee camp early Monday, pushing ahead with the largest operation in the area during more than a year of fighting. It came at a time of growing domestic pressure for a

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