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After some time seeing Aleppo in the north of Syria, I drove south to what was the third largest
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city in the country, and that is the city of Homs. I've just made it to the city of Homs
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As you can see it's pretty much destroyed. I feel sick. Almost every building around me is destroyed, being hit by rockets or there's traces of airstrikes, gunfighting. I don't know what to say. This is the worst destruction I have ever seen in my entire life
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So here in Homs which was Syria third largest city over 40 of the city was destroyed
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It's the most destroyed city in the whole of the country. You can see huge buildings all around me just destroyed
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The population before the crisis was around 2 million. now more than half of the city had to escape to save the families to live a safer life
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Many of them in a refugee camp just south of where I am now
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Many others across the country and in other refugee camps around the world
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For many of you and me, I see this, we see this on the news all the time
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I think we've become a little bit desensitized to it, but the reality is this
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So much of the city destroyed, the families who used to live here, their lives destroyed
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I don have any words This is the saddest thing I ever seen in my entire life
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Across from this devastation all around me, the mosque is slowly slowly being rebuilt, restored
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Thank you And that was my trip to Homs a city so devastated by what happened there over the past 10 years
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I couldn't film anymore. I was so devastated by what I saw, I couldn't pick up the camera
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I have never seen destruction, damage as severe as that ever. And I never want to see anything like that ever again
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To be there physically was hard and mentally challenging. but I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like for people to live there
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the millions of people who used to live there in one of Syria's largest cities
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to be forced out from explosions and gunfire and taking family and pick up everything
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and leave what you ever knew to other areas. the city is slowly being reconstructed
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the mosque is largely reconstructed there are areas that still need work in the mosque
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but opposite that is just pure devastation and it's heartbreaking yeah
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I'm going to leave this video here and see you in other parts of Syria
