Ramallah, May 19 (RHC)-- Funerals were held in the occupied West Bank over the weekend for two Palestinians shot dead during the annual Nakba Day protest.

The father of 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara called on Israel to try his son’s killer in court. Siam Nuwara told the crowd at the funeral: "As we bemoan over our son, our solace is that our son is a martyr in heaven. He died for his homeland and died for his family and his people. He died on the Nakba Day. Our children will grow up and take revenge for my son, and take back our homeland."

Another Palestinian shot in the protests was left in critical condition. Last week maked the 66th anniversary of the Nakba, or "Catastrophe," when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced during the period around Israel’s declaration of statehood.