Northern, WI 8/5/2011 (PennyPayDay) – At least 15 people have been killed by security forces in Syria, activists say, as protesters take to the streets in support of the flashpoint city of Hama on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month.Security forces fired at demonstrators in Irbin, near Damascus, killing five people and wounding many others, Abdel Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian League for the Defence of Human Rights, an opposition group, told the AFP news agency in Nicosia, Cyprus.
"Thousands of demonstrators marched in Deir ez-Zor, Deraa and Qamishli in support of the city of Hama despite the extreme heat," he said.
He said they numbered 30,000 in Deir ez-Zor alone.
Another Syrian activist, Rami Abdel Rahman, said 20 people were wounded, seven of them seriously as security forces opened fire in the Ter Maala district of the central city of Homs.
Abdel Rahman said that "more than 12,000 people" marched in Bench, in the northern Idlib province, "to demand the fall of the regime and express their support for Hama and Deir ez-Zor".
Furthermore, "hundreds of people came out of the al-Mans Uri mosque in Jablah, chanting 'God is with us'," he said, referring to a city on Syria's Mediterranean coast.
State television said two members of the security forces were shot and wounded by armed men posted on rooftops in Douma, a suburb of Damascus.
Pro-democracy activists say communications have been completely cut off as the army steps up an operation to crush dissent in Hama, 200km north of Damascus, where security forces killed at least 30 civilians and wounded dozens more earlier in the week.
The call for Friday's solidarity protests came from activists on the Facebook group, The Syrian Revolution 2011, a driving force behind the demonstrations calling for greater freedoms in the country since mid-March.
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