Veteran war reporter Ayman Mohyeldin announced Friday he was heading back to Gaza. Mohyeldin’s coverage of the conflict in the region went viral Wednesday after he live-tweeted an Israeli airstrike that killed four children in Gaza.
NBC News issued a statement Friday evening confirming Mohyeldin's redeployment and praising his work:
Ayman Mohyeldin has done extraordinary reporting throughout the escalation of the conflict in Gaza, filing 25+ reports over the past 17 days, including his invaluable and well-documented contribution to the story on the deaths of the four Palestinian children on Wednesday. As with any news team in conflict zones, deployments are constantly reassessed. We've carefully considered our deployment decisions and we will be sending Ayman back to Gaza over the weekend. We look forward to his contributions in the coming days.
Ayman Mohyeldin arrives at the Time magazine "World's 100 Most Influential People" gala in New York on April 26, 2011.
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