The Israeli government is under intense public pressure Thursday to topple Hamas after its militants stormed through a border fence Saturday and killed hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival.

Hamas said it launched its attack Saturday because Palestinians’ suffering had become intolerable under unending Israeli military occupation, increasing settlements in the West Bank and a 16-year-long blockade in Gaza.

Here’s what’s happening on Day 6 of the war:

More on the war:

• Families in Israel and abroad wait in agony for word of their loved ones taken hostage by militants
• The stunning incursion was Hamas’ deadliest gambit yet. What is the militant group’s end game?
• A Palestinian mother kneels beside the body of her dead son. Israelis crouch beside stone walls: The fifth day of the war in photos.
• What to know about the latest Israel-Palestinian war