RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – More than 100 days after Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered in Jenin, hundreds of Palestinians and supporters gathered in Ramallah to unveil a street named after the Palestinian veteran journalist.
The street is on the way that Abu Akleh used to travel daily to get to work at the Al Jazeera network office in Ramallah and where she was reporting live coverage of incidents in Palestine.
Ramallah City Municipal Council announced the new street in the presence of Abu Akleh’s family and supporters, along with a monument where she stood during her reports.
The memorial reflects the symbolism of Abu Akleh in the collective memory of Palestinians since they still consider her as their voice.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has renewed its call for an international investigation into the assassination of the veteran Palestinian journalist, who was killed by Zionist troops while on assignment in the occupied northern West Bank city of Jenin.
“Our position on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh is unchanged,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told a press conference in New York.
He added, “We still want this matter to be thoroughly investigated and for those responsible for the killing to be held accountable.”
On whether Guterres supports the International Criminal Court’s probe into the journalist’s murder in the occupied West Bank, Haq said, “we have been clear that we support the investigations that have been underway, and we want to make sure that they come to a result that is acceptable to all [concerned] parties.”
Abu Akleh was wearing a protective vest marked with “PRESS” and standing with other journalists when she was shot dead by a Zionist sniper.
Al Jazeera has described Abu Akleh’s death as a “blatant murder” that violates “international laws and norms” and said that she was “assassinated in cold blood”.
The network has assigned a legal team to refer her killing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.