A commercial vessel was on fire in the southern Red Sea on Tuesday after an attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen, Pentagon officials said.

The attack was the latest by the group on targets in the Red Sea and the broader region during more than two months of war between Israel and Hamas, which has also received Iranian backing.

The vessel was identified as the Strinda, which online records show is a chemical tanker registered in Norway. According to one of the U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, a land-based cruise missile launched from Yemen struck the Strinda around 4 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, or about midnight local time on Tuesday.

The vessel caught fire and was damaged, but no casualties were reported, a second Pentagon official said, noting that no United States vessels had been in the vicinity during the attack. It took place some 60 nautical miles north of the Bab el-Mandeb, a strait between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, which opens into the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. A U.S. Navy ship, the U.S.S. Mason, was at the scene of the attack rendering aid, the official said.

Since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack led by Hamas against Israel, the Houthis — a rebel group long enmeshed in a civil war in Yemen — has launched a series of drone and missile assaults on Israeli and American targets.

The Houthis have said they intend to prevent Israeli ships from sailing in the Red Sea until Israel stops its assault on Hamas in Gaza. It was not immediately clear whether the Strinda had any connection to Israel, and some of their prior targets have had no discernible connection to Israel.

Last week, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, said that the United States was in discussions with allies to set up a naval task force to guard ships traveling through the Red Sea.