Iran is "just getting started", its parliamentary speaker has warned the US, after attacks in the vital waterway escalated on Monday. Mohammad Ghalibaf accused the US of violating the fragile ceasefire between the two sides, after President Donald Trump announced "Project Freedom", which aims to use the military to guide stranded ships out of the strait. However, Iran insists that it controls the trade artery, which it has been selectively blockading since the war began, pushing up global oil prices. These recent events reinforce "the fact that it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to prise open the Strait of Hormuz by force", writes security correspondent Frank Gardner.

In war-torn Gaza, the daily threats are now from pests spreading diseases, our Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell reports. "We woke up to the sound of her screaming at 2am," Samah al-Daabla, the mother of four-year-old Mayaseen, says. "When my husband turned on the torch, the weasel ran away. I looked at my daughter's hand, and it was all blood." Social media shows videos of newborn babies and elderly people after being attacked by rodents. The Israeli defence body that controls Gaza's crossings, says it's working with international organisations "to address sanitation needs".