A lot of NGO workers have been killed or their families have been killed or wounded. A lot of their infrastructure has been wiped out. And all of the aid infrastructure that did exist there, the NGOs, has been damaged. They're sleeping out in streets or in buses or mosques with no shelter and so on.
People are - hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have lost their homes. The extent of the damage is very similar to what has hit Antakya, Turkey, where a massive city that's just razed to the ground. You have large cities essentially rubbled to the ground. KHALID: So based on what you know, Joel, can you give us a sense of what this disaster looks like in northern Syria in the absence of international aid? special envoy for Syria and the director of the American Center for Levant Studies. Aid has been slow to reach the region, and enormous challenges remain.
Tens of thousands are now homeless and in dire need of basic supplies. For people in northern Syria who have already suffered through more than a decade of war, this is another major humanitarian crisis. He was describing last week's earthquake in Turkey and Syria as a once-in-generations event, warning that the situation could only get worse. We just heard from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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