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(CNN) -- Pressure at the United Nations and world capitals mounted Tuesday on Syria's government as a fierce security crackdown on peaceful protests overnight and into the day left dozens of deaths, injuries and arrests.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group, said snipers were postioned across the western city of Hama and five people were killed there later Tuesday.
Tear gas grenades and live ammunition were used against 40,000 participating in funerals for people in the Damascus suburb of Irbeen killed Monday. Protesters are responding by throwing stones?, the Local Coordination Committees said, and security forces dispersed the demonstration with bullets and fire extinguishers. There was a wave of arrests.
Overnight, at least 24 people were killed, dozens were wounded, and more than 150 people have been detained across the country after Ramadan prayers, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of London-based human rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Those slain include 10 in Hama, six in Irbeen, three in Homs province, two in Boukamal, two in Latakia on the coast and one in Madamaiya near Damascus, Abdul-Rahman said.
"The world is watching, and the international community is gravely concerned," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, adding that at least 145 people have been killed since Friday.
"I stand in solidarity with peaceful protesters who are demanding that
the persistent violation of their human rights ends now. I also stand in solidarity with the families of all the victims who have lost their lives since the crackdown began and condemn in the strongest terms the reprehensible violence this government is using against its own people."
Hama hospitals have been overwhelmed; patients were being treated in hallways, and the morgues were overflowing, a doctor in Hama said. The bloodshed follows a violent weekend in the volatile city, where dozens of people were reported killed and hospitals overwhelmed.
Hama under seige
Hama resident: 'There is a slaughtering'
Violence flares in restive Syrian city
Syrian state-run media reported Tuesday that "armed groups" were behind an assault in Hama on Monday.
But activists have consistently said security forces initiated the violence in Hama, the scene of a brutal military crackdown in 1982 targeting Sunni Muslims by the
Alawite-dominated government led by Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad.
People in Irbeen have managed to smuggle some of the wounded to secret locations so they can be treated discreetly out of fear that security forces abduct them from hospitals, according to the Coalition of Free Damascenes for Peaceful Change. The coalition also said residents have spotted several snipers on a building overlooking a square in Irbeen.
The latest violence coincides with the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, a religious period of fasting and spiritual reflection, and it comes as U.N. Security Council members meet for a second day Tuesday to discuss the crackdown.
Security Council members are deciding on how to marry two texts,
Western press deputies said.
They are the European draft resolution that had its origins in May, amid the initial reaction to the violence, and elements from the Brazilian representative that don't go as far as the European draft in criticizing the Syrian government.
Four European members of the Security Council -- Britain, France, Germany and Portugal -- on Monday had revived a draft U.N. resolution that would probably condemn Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Indian Ambassador to the U.N. Hardeep Puri characterized Tuesday's council consultations as "some serious discussions going on." He said there are common elements among Security Council members: concern over violence, calling for restraint and a start to a political process.
"We felt that the council had to say something," Puri said.
/mods please change title to possible strike against syria
. I realize i have cocked it up 
So after the whole libya lie(going against the resolution set out out) how many countries would vote in favour of a strike against syria?
Good idea or bad idea?
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group, said snipers were postioned across the western city of Hama and five people were killed there later Tuesday.
Tear gas grenades and live ammunition were used against 40,000 participating in funerals for people in the Damascus suburb of Irbeen killed Monday. Protesters are responding by throwing stones?, the Local Coordination Committees said, and security forces dispersed the demonstration with bullets and fire extinguishers. There was a wave of arrests.
Overnight, at least 24 people were killed, dozens were wounded, and more than 150 people have been detained across the country after Ramadan prayers, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of London-based human rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Those slain include 10 in Hama, six in Irbeen, three in Homs province, two in Boukamal, two in Latakia on the coast and one in Madamaiya near Damascus, Abdul-Rahman said.
"The world is watching, and the international community is gravely concerned," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, adding that at least 145 people have been killed since Friday.
"I stand in solidarity with peaceful protesters who are demanding that
the persistent violation of their human rights ends now. I also stand in solidarity with the families of all the victims who have lost their lives since the crackdown began and condemn in the strongest terms the reprehensible violence this government is using against its own people."
Hama hospitals have been overwhelmed; patients were being treated in hallways, and the morgues were overflowing, a doctor in Hama said. The bloodshed follows a violent weekend in the volatile city, where dozens of people were reported killed and hospitals overwhelmed.
Hama under seige
Hama resident: 'There is a slaughtering'
Violence flares in restive Syrian city
Syrian state-run media reported Tuesday that "armed groups" were behind an assault in Hama on Monday.
But activists have consistently said security forces initiated the violence in Hama, the scene of a brutal military crackdown in 1982 targeting Sunni Muslims by the
Alawite-dominated government led by Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad.
People in Irbeen have managed to smuggle some of the wounded to secret locations so they can be treated discreetly out of fear that security forces abduct them from hospitals, according to the Coalition of Free Damascenes for Peaceful Change. The coalition also said residents have spotted several snipers on a building overlooking a square in Irbeen.
The latest violence coincides with the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, a religious period of fasting and spiritual reflection, and it comes as U.N. Security Council members meet for a second day Tuesday to discuss the crackdown.
Security Council members are deciding on how to marry two texts,
Western press deputies said.
They are the European draft resolution that had its origins in May, amid the initial reaction to the violence, and elements from the Brazilian representative that don't go as far as the European draft in criticizing the Syrian government.
Four European members of the Security Council -- Britain, France, Germany and Portugal -- on Monday had revived a draft U.N. resolution that would probably condemn Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Indian Ambassador to the U.N. Hardeep Puri characterized Tuesday's council consultations as "some serious discussions going on." He said there are common elements among Security Council members: concern over violence, calling for restraint and a start to a political process.
"We felt that the council had to say something," Puri said.
/mods please change title to possible strike against syria
. I realize i have cocked it up So after the whole libya lie(going against the resolution set out out) how many countries would vote in favour of a strike against syria?
Good idea or bad idea?
