RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 31 (Reuters): Israeli troops wounded nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Wednesday in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics said. They said the Israelis shot the protesters with rubber bullets. A 21-year-old Palestinian was hit in the head and doctors described him as brain dead. A doctor at Ramallah hospital said the 21-year-old man was hit in the head by two steel-coated rubber bullets. The governor of Ramallah, Said Abu Ali, said an autopsy on the boy killed on Tuesday near the West Bank village of Nilin showed he had been shot in the head by live bullets. “There was a big hole in his head and we couldn’t save his life,” said a medic who was at the scene. He said the boy had been shot at close range. One demonstrator said the protest had begun peacefully, with several boys watching as Israeli bulldozers cleared land for the barrier. “After the bulldozers finished their work, a military jeep belonging to the border police pulled over and one soldier knelt down and aimed his rifle at us and shot at us.