The United Nations estimates 8,000 homes in the Old City were either damaged or destroyed in fighting. As Mosul was liberated, almost everyone in the Old City lost a relative — many lost multiple family members. Shukri estimates about 600 families have moved back to the Old City — likely less than 10 percent of its pre-2014 population. Residents of the Old City resent being left under ISIS occupation for three years while other Iraqi cities were liberated. "The Old City will come back better because our people struggle and they work," he says.