Middle East crisis live: Iran ready to reopen strait of Hormuz within seven days if US lifts blockade, official says

Traffic through the key waterway for energy supplies has dwindled to a trickle We are seeing reports that the Houthis have said that strikes carried out by Saudi Arabia in the northwest of the country killed at least two civilians.

“A mother and child were killed, while her husband and two of her other children were wounded in strikes carried out by the Saudi enemy in the Al-Batin area of Al-Hazm, in Al-Jawf…