Before the war, the strait typically saw between 130 and 140 ships pass through each day. Traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb strait on the Red Sea stayed largely steady, with 25 vessels transiting on Monday against a 10-day average of nearly 24. The drop in Hormuz traffic comes as President Donald Trump responded to Iran's peace terms on Monday by setting his own demand: that Iran pay compensation for people killed in wars, attacks and protests. This followed Tehran's own demands for compensation and an end to sanctions, largely in line with a preliminary peace deal reached in June that has since collapsed. Since the war began in February, Trump has repeatedly shifted between threatening further escalation and claiming a peace deal is close.