Protests in the Qatif region continued from January to May,[124] with security forces using live fire against protesters,[60][125][126] killing four, and arresting medical personnel.[127] Security forces shot dead Issam Mohamed Abu Abdallah in al-Awamiyah on 12[57] or 13 January,[58] Montazar Sa'eed al-Abdel in al-Awamiyah on 26 January,[59] and Munir al-Midani[60][61] and Zuhair al-Said[62][63] on 9 and 10 February. In the 70,000 strong funeral for Abdallah on 16 January in al-Awamiyah and the daily Qatif region protests that followed, protesters chanted slogans against the House of Saud and Minister of Interior, Nayef, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.[64][65][128] In mid-February, two medical personnel were arrested for having clandestinely treated injured protesters.[127] In a 10 February protest and a 13 February funeral, an effigy of Nayef was thrown at tanks and participants described Nayef as a "terrorist", "criminal" and "butcher".[66] Police described two of the fatal shootings as responses to unidentified gunmen who had shot first.[62][67] Dawoud al-Marhoon and Abdullah Hasan al-Zaher were arrested on 22 May and 3 March 2012, when they were aged 17 and 16 respectively, for participated in the 2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests. Originally, in March 2012, Al Marhoon was questioned by Saudi police and asked to be an informant and report details about his fellow protesters.