The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold.

The IDF carried out a series of airstrikes throughout southern Syria that it says targeted weapons belonging to the regime after a pair of projectiles were fired into the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday night.

“The Syrian regime is responsible for what is happening in Syria and will continue to bear the consequences as long as hostile activity continues from its territory,” the IDF said in a statement.

The families of some of the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza will be meeting with senior Trump administration officials in Washington this week, a White House official tells The Times of Israel.

The meetings will come amid an ongoing impasse in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Hamas said Monday that it is prepared to immediately enter indirect talks in order to bridge remaining gaps, in an apparent softening of its position after the updated proposal it submitted to the US on Sunday was blasted by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, who said it took the sides backward.

The main issue of contention remains whether the temporary truce under discussion leaves enough of a window for Israel to resume fighting after it expires or if the proposal’s assurances from the Trump administration are enough to convince Hamas that the ceasefire will hold permanently.

The Syrian foreign ministry asserts that it “has not and will not pose a threat to any party in the region” and is working to rein in armed, non-state actors in southern Syria.

The statement comes after Israel said a pair of rockets were fired at its side of the Golan Heights from southern Syria and blamed the Syrian government for the attack.

The Syrian government claimed it had yet to confirm the rocket launches that targeted Israel, but it did condemn the Israeli counter-attack, saying it resulted in “heavy human and material losses” and violated Syria’s sovereignty “at a time when we are most in need of calm and peaceful solutions.”

“We call on the international community to assume its responsibilities in stopping these attacks, and to support efforts aimed at restoring security and stability to Syria and the region,” the Syrian foreign ministry statement says.

Frimet and Arnold Roth, the parents of Malki Roth, an American citizen killed at age 15 in the 2001 Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, met last month with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to deliver a petition urging the extradition of the attack’s orchestrator, Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, from Jordan, according to a statement shared by the parents today.

“This is a matter of justice for the families of murdered Americans,” Arnold told Huckabee during a May 13 meeting at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, according to the family’s........

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