Israel attacked Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, as well as Gaza, where air strikes killed at least 54 people on Monday.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Gaza’s more than 2 million people “will be moved” in a new ground offensive as Israel’s total blockade on the enclave reaches 65 days.

    Hospitals in Gaza are 48 hours away from collapse and the lives of thousands of sick and wounded are at risk, the Gaza Media Office said.

    Israel’s war has killed at least 52,567 Palestinians and wounded 118,610, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.

    An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Caroline Rose, the director of the New Lines Institute think tank in Washington, DC, spoke to Al Jazeera earlier about Israeli forces fighting on multiple fronts – from Gaza to Yemen and Syria to Lebanon – and how so many conflicts will drain Israeli military capabilities.

    Here’s more of what Rose said:

    “Netanyahu, of course, is preparing more plans for doubling down on their offensive in the Gaza Strip. So, this is certainly going to be something that will impact the [Israeli military’s] operational capacity.

    “And I think it is also worth noting that, as of now, the plan is to bring reservists into the second and third fronts that have been opened – in Lebanon, in Syria – and then swap out with those reservists, active-duty [Israeli] soldiers and deploy them into Gaza.

    “On the one hand, the idea is that these forces will have operational experience – battlefield experience – that can contribute to gains made in the Gaza Strip. But, on the other hand, we are seeing a group of [Israeli] soldiers that will have low morale, they’re exhausted, and they may not necessarily be able to contribute to a successful campaign,” she said.

    Pro-Palestinian protesters have again taken aim at one of the fashion world’s biggest nights as the Met Gala got under way in New York’s Manhattan on a rainy Monday night.

    Protesting to highlight the genocide in Gaza, demonstrators gathered about a block away from the gala as the area immediately around the Metropolitan Museum of Art was cordoned off by police.

    Video clips shared on social media showed some protesters hopping over barricades as they marched in the rain through Central Park towards the events and its celebrity participants who have been accused of flaunting their “extreme wealth and materialism” while Israel perpetrates genocide in Gaza.

    “Not a single food or aid truck has entered Gaza for two months, leading to mass starvation of the Palestinian people,” the Within Our Lifetime protest group wrote in a post on social media.

    It’s the second year in a row that protests have taken place outside the gala.

    Last year, an online movement emerged calling for the blocking of celebrities on social media who had attended the Met Gala and were seen as being insensitive towards, or even supportive of, Israel’s killing of Palestinians and destruction of Gaza.

    New York’s Summer Stage concert series said, in a post on Instagram, that it has cancelled its Pride benefit concert with R&B singer Kehlani after Mayor Eric Adams’s office expressed “safety and security” concerns.

    The cancellation comes after New York representative Ritchie Torres claimed that Kehlani, who has been a vocal supporter of Palestinians, had called for the “dismantling of Israel”.

    Kehlani has responded to previous criticisms of her pro-Palestinian activism, saying: “I am anti-genocide. I am anti the actions of the Israeli government. I am anti an extermination of an entire people.”

    PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman said the decision to cancel the show was “cowardly”.

    “No one wins when politicians meddle to suppress artistic expression,” Friedman said in a statement.

    Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has accused Israel of “using starvation as a method of warfare” in Gaza.

    In a post on social media accompanying video footage of hungry Palestinians trying desperately to get food at a charity kitchen, the rights group said that more than 2 million people in Gaza have been starved for about two months in Gaza.

    Half of those being starved by Israel are children, the prominent rights group said.

    “Israel is using starvation as a war tactic,” it added.