Glad you chose an NBC clip. Rainbows make me so happy.

It's so endless that it's hard to even get worked up about it anymore.

@1 kill yourself.

Not defending NBC, but it's at least possible Ayman Mohyeldin might be suffering from serious PTSD after being there when this happened. Even if you're a seasoned reporter, when do you reach your limit for atrocity? If four kids were brutally killed while I was playing a freakin' soccer game with them, I'm guessing I'd have a hard time of EVER coming back from that. I'm impressed with reporters (and survivors in general) who manage to get through these things and still retain their sanity. My best wishes to Mr. Mohyeldin, no matter what his current situation.

Also, not knowing any facts here, the 'security concerns' might be that they got wind that somebody is pissed at him about his reporting and would target him if he remained in Gaza.

Could you clarify how to spell Ayman's name? You spell it at least 3 different ways in the article, multiple times each.

"Disgracefully, award-winning correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin[1] will not be on the ground to cover it. When Israel invaded Gaza in 2008, Al Jazeera's Mohedin[2] and Sherine Tadros were the only English-language correspondents on the ground.
Mohedin[2] later moved to NBC News. Yesterday, he was playing soccer with some kids on a beach near his hotel in Gaza, when out of nowhere, the Israeli military shelled the area, killing four of them.

NBC executive David Verdi, according to The Intercept, ordered "Mohyeldin[1] to leave Gaza immediately" for "security reasons"—a laughable notion given his experience reporting from warzones for years—angering a number of NBC journalists inside the newsroom. Moheyldin[3] has been replaced by reporter Richard Engel, who is based in Tel Aviv. You can see Mohyeldin[1] briefly in Engel's heart-wrenching report from last night:"

Name appears 6 times, 3 ways.

what's the plan? search every building in Gaza for the missiles? go building to building sorting Hamas/Islamic Jihad militants from their innocent wives and children? push everyone in Gaza into Egypt? into the sea?

Ayman should never have left AJE -- he's had to fight for air time since he joined NBC.

And when a racist mob in France lynched a Roma boy about 2 weeks ago the media tried to paint it as a far right attack even those the mob were African immigrants and the ringleaders name was Mohammad. There has been copious coverage (and condemnation) of the murder of a Palestinian in retaliation for the deaths of those 3 Israelis. Why doesn't this crime in Paris generate the same outrage or even a mention in the same papers that did a dozen articles about that murder in Israel?

To clarify: Ansel is bitching over the media downplaying these horrific deaths but the few leftwing media outlets that covered this barbaric lynching in Paris attempted to make it seem like white right wingers were behind it despite them knowing it was black Muslims. Is there a reason Ansel doesn't denounce this?

@8: Shoot, thought I'd fixed those. It's Mohyeldin.

@14: Thanks. I didn't want to be too pedantic, but it's a name I'm not familiar with, and it sounds like that is to my misfortune.

Also, how dare you not cover all the stories everywhere all the time?

@15, FWIW, he has been one of the on-the-ground correspondents for MSNBC the last couple of weeks. He's had several appearances on Chris Hayes's show.

@11, "There has been copious coverage (and condemnation) of the murder of a Palestinian in retaliation for the deaths of those 3 Israelis. "

So the Palestinian murder was a "murder", but the Israelis murdered were only "deaths"?

Hamas, which has been rocketing Israel since it took over Gaza, started out using homemade rockets. Then they used longer-range rockets flown from Iran to Egypt and delivered to Gaza via the tunnels. Now they're using rockets which can reach to the far north of Israel, flown from Syria to Iran to Egypt. Definitely the actions of a Hamas which wants to just be left alone.

@13, So, the Palestinians are at fault because they let their kids play on the beach, thinking they'd be safe there? Because Palestinians love their kids less? Got it.

@17 I know, it's almost like those dozens of children were asking to be killed by being part of an ethnic group which has killed one or two people with rockets.

And to think that this tragedy was brought about when three teenagers took a wrong turn.