LA Times blocks several reporters from covering Gaza: Report

The Los Angeles Times is prohibiting staff from covering Israel's war in Gaza for at least three months if they signed an open letter that criticised western media coverage of the war, according to a report by Semafor.

After the report was released, one of the newspaper's reporters, Suhauna Hussain, confirmed that several staff members had been taken off coverage and said the move by the company "removes a great many Muslim journalists and most [if] not all Palestinians at the LA Times from coverage".

According to Hussain, nearly three dozen staffers at the LA Times signed the open letter that condemned Israel's bombing of Gaza, which has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians and scores of journalists in the enclave.

More than 1,200 journalists and writers have signed the letter since it was released.