US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, calls for the departure of Assad after UN monitors are blocked from verifying the Hama massacre.

The UN Secretary, General Ban Ki-Moon, told a General Assembly session today, that monitors trying to access the site of an alleged massacre were shot at by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.  

Ban Ki Moon said:

"Today’s news reports of another massacre… are shocking and sickening,"

"We condemn this unspeakable barbarity and renew our determination to bring those responsible to account,"

The opposition groups in Syria have claimed that pro-government forces have killed 86 people, many of whom are women and children. 

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, condemned the alleged massacre and went on to say:

“We need to do much more to isolate Syria, to isolate the regime, to put the pressure on and to demonstrate that the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime and to actually see one that can take care of its people.

“It really is appalling, what is happening in that country, and I want to see concerted action from the international community.”

The Syrian government continue to deny the allegations, calling them "absolutely baseless".

After condemning the alleged massacre, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said,

"The regime-sponsored violence that we witnessed again in Hama yesterday is simply unconscionable. Assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity, and Syria will not, cannot, be peaceful stable or certainly democratic until Assad goes."

"The time has come for the international community to unite around a plan for post-Assad Syria."

The alleged massacre takes place after the massacre that took place at the end of May, contributing to some of the worst violence since the start of the Kofi Annan U.N peace plan.