The so-called opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) urged the anti-Damascus rmilitants inside Syria to “step up military assaults” on security forces

The so-called opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) urged the anti-Damascus rmilitants inside Syria to “step up military assaults” on security forces.

“The Syrian National Council calls on the Free Syrian Army to step up military assaults on regime forces,” the SNC said in a statement issued on Thursday.

The group also called for demonstrations on Thursday and Friday to “denounce the recent killings in the central province of Hama.”

Earlier on Thursday, the SNC claimed that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “massacred” about 100 people, including 20 women and 20 children, in the village of al-Qubeir in Hama on June 6.

However, the Syrian government rejected the claim in a televised statement on Thursday, saying, “What a few media have reported on what happened in al-Qubeir, in the Hama region, is completely false.”

“A terrorist group committed a heinous crime in the Hama region which claimed nine victims. The reports by the media are contributing to spilling the blood of Syrians,” the government statement added.