The United Nations is warning it could be forced to scale back food aid in Syria due to a lack of international funding. On Monday, John Ging, the director of the U.N.’s humanitarian operations, said relief workers have already cut the nutritional count in food rations by half in the past two months. Speaking shortly after a trip to Syria, Ging warned the country is seeing widespread devastation.

John Ging: “It’s really shocking, the scale of the devastation and, again, the cost and the amount of time that it will take to recover already, not to speak about, of course, the fact that this is going on in an unrelenting — unrelenting way. The state of living conditions for people now in Syria, across the board, are just quite appalling. And what strikes you most is when you go to the hospitals and you see how sick people are having to, you know, cope in medical facilities that are just so seriously under-resourced.”