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He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins. "It was like a ghost town," he says.

"When the reconstruction teams arrived in Mosul in 2018, they found a field of rubble," said Azoulay, according to Tages-Anzeiger. "80 percent of the old town had been destroyed," she explained.

What I can say shortly is that as if a tornado went through the old town, as if an 11 Richter scale earthquake, it was not the city I am familiar with. It was full of death, full of destruction.

The base of the destroyed “al-Hadba” leaning minaret in the Old City of Mosul on July 9, 2018. Photo by Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images ...

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