Syrians are ready for the "day of defiance".

tanks and trucks leaving the city in the South of Deraa, but have been reported elsewhere Syrian activists are preparing to take the streets Friday for what they call a "day of defiance".

Reported that tanks were withdrawn from Deraa city, where a Government said human rights groups led a 10 - day "massacre".

But the security forces are reported to have gathered in other urban areas, including the coastal town of Banias.

It is believed that more than 500 Syrians were killed in attempts to repress the seven weeks of protests.

At least 2,500 other people have been detained in a violent repression that the United States were described as "barbaric."

"Aversion."

In cities around the Syria demonstrators called for more political rights and individual freedoms. Some are calling for the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

People are expected after the Friday prayer, which has become a regular focal point of protests in the Arab world in 2011.

The unrest in Syria is a most serious problem of four decades of rule by the Assad family in one of the most tightly controlled countries Arabic.

Foreign journalists are not allowed to enter the country, so that it is difficult to verify the reports of death.

A doctor, who said he wished to join those show, said the "killings blind and inhuman arrests generated aversion among the average Syrian."

"" Soldiers with rifles deter has more people. "."Propaganda that this scheme is that the only guarantor of stability wash is not, he was quoted as saying Reuters.

"Poised to attack."

Military units have been reported to deploy elsewhere Thursday, especially around the coastal town of Banias, is home to one of two of the Syria oil refineries.

Four armoured vehicles, several tanks and a bus carrying soldiers were observed by an eyewitness, quoted by the Associated Press Agency.

Hundreds of families would have to be fleeing the area, fearing that Banias - like the city of Deraa - could come under siege.

"It looks like they are preparing to attack the city, as they did in Deraa," a militant told AFP news by telephone from the city agency.

A humanitarian United Nations team should visit Deraa in the next few days, Deputy of the Organization spokesman Farhan Haq said Thursday, following an appeal to President Bashar al-Assad by Secretary General Ban Ki - moon.

In the past two days there is also an increased military presence also in the coastal cities of Homs and Rastan. Troops are also in the suburbs of Damascus of Erbin, Saqba, State Duma and in the city of such, North of the capital.

In Washington, the spokesman for the Department of State Mark Toner said that the United States "Assad regime to renounce its violent behaviour of the press."

"We hate violence," said Mr. Toner. "I think that I've called him barbaric, the measures that have been taken to the other day against citizens of Deraa, and we urge Syria to put an end to these types of actions against innocent civilians who are simply expressing their aspirations to a democratic future."

Damascus Center for human rights studies says machine-guns shooters elite and anti-aircraft were used to shoot unarmed in the city of southern civilians and recent amateur video appears to show dozens of unarmed demonstrators being shot and bleeding to death in the streets.

He scored the Deraa murders a "massacre".

The Government said that it takes measures against the "elements of terrorist groups... to restore security, peace and stability."