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EXCLUSIVE: Photo of slain Palestinian teen

Hussein Mohammed Madi, the teenager who was shot and killed with an expanding dumdum bullet by Israeli forces on Friday - according to the ministry of health in Gaza - had encountered MEE correspondent and photographer Mohammed al-Hajjar on Thursday, who had taken a picture of the boy and asked him for his name.

Madi was from the Gaza City neighbourhood of al-Sheikh Radwan, according to the Gaza ministry of health. He was 15 years old.

Hussein Mohammed Mahdi, 15, a day before he was killed by Israeli forces (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)