Iran hostilities flare after US strike in strait of Hormuz – Middle East crisis live

US targets Iran’s Larak Island in first exchange of fire in more than a month, sparking reprisals against US forces in the regionUS strikes Iranian launchers in strait of Hormuz, prompting Iranian retaliatory attacksLebanon’s state-run National News Agency is reporting that Israeli artillery shelling targeted the southern Lebanese town of Houla on Monday. It also reported overnight Israeli attacks in the areas of Mansouri and Buyout Al-Sayyad, also in southern Lebanon.The renewed war on Lebanon started after Hezbollah, the Iranian backed Lebanese militant group and political party, struck Israel with rockets on 2 March in response for the killing of Iran’s former supreme leader. Israel responded with an aerial assault and invasion that killed more than 4,300 people and occupied about 6% of