Shireen Abu Akleh's family and colleagues told UN investigators that she had been deliberately targeted as part of Israel's "wide-scale war" on Palestinian media workers, and called for accountability and justice.
The family said it was calling for the United States to launch its own "thorough, credible independent and transparent investigation" into Abu Akleh's murder.
Thousands of Palestinians crowded the roads in Ramallah to honour Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as Palestinian president held Israel responsible for the killing.
The arrests of siblings Muna and Muhammad el Kurd came a day after police detained a well-known Al Jazeera reporter who was covering a demonstration in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
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