The United Arab Emirates blamed navigational errors for a collision involving two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The incident raised worries about security through the passageway, a choke point for ships carrying oil from the Persian Gulf.

The accident occurred in the Gulf of Oman amid increased reports of GPS jamming of ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.

An oil tanker, Adalynn, collided with another oil tanker, Front Eagle, causing “a small oil spill,” the Emirati government said Wednesday in a statement.

Twenty-four members of the Adalynn’s crew were evacuated from the site of the collision, about 24 nautical miles off the Emirati coast, the Emirati national guard said. No injuries were reported among either vessel’s crew.

Frontline, a shipping company based in Cyprus that owns the Front Eagle, said in a statement that a fire had broken out on the Front Eagle’s deck and that the incident was “a navigational incident and not related to the current regional conflict.”

But Iran and Israel have accused each other of endangering international maritime security and the global energy supply chain.

Around one-third of the volume of crude oil exported by sea and 20% of the world’s liquefied natural gas, another vital commodity, flow through the Strait of Hormuz.

Jean-Charles Gordon, senior director of ship tracking at Kpler, a research firm, said hundreds, if not thousands, of vessels had experienced navigational interference since Friday, when Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran.