Multiple small vessels attacked a ship in the Red Sea near Yemen’s Al Hudaydah port, causing a fire on board and prompting the crew to abandon ship before the Israel army carried out airstrikes on Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen.

T EL AVIV—A crew in the Red Sea was forced to abandon ship after it was hit by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Sunday, the first attack of its kind since President Trump announced a truce in May after he said the group promised to stop attacking Middle Eastern waterways.

Yemen’s Houthi militants continued to pound a commercial ship in the Red Sea — hours after beginning an assault on the vessel that left crew missing — the latest sign that the Tehran-backed group is once again escalating its threat to the merchant fleet.