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For the fourth day in a row, rockets were fired from south Lebanon into Israel; Israeli forces retaliated by shelling the source. Lebanese security forces found two rocket launch pads south of Tyre, and arrested a suspect near the Rashidieh refugee camp. The Army is searching for militants who many have entered Lebanon from Syria near Baalbek. A military judge called for the death penalty for 23 suspected members of the al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, including top official Naim Mahmoud Abbas, Ziad al-Jarrah Battalion member Jamal Daftardar, and female jihadist Joumana Hmayyed; among the 17 suspects still at large are Brigades spokesman Brigades spokesman Sheikh Sirajeddine Zouraykat.