A PALESTINIAN teenager was killed as he tried to stop militants from planting a bomb to attack Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, while beleaguered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat faced new protests.

PALESTINIAN militants set off a huge explosion at an Israeli army outpost in the Gaza Strip yesterday, causing a concrete building to collapse.

FURIOUS Palestinians called for swift revenge attacks as they paid their last respects to seven militants, including three senior commanders, shot dead by Israeli troops in Nablus.

Charly Wegman, Jerusalem

HOPES that reformist Palestinian prime minister-designate Mahmud Abbas will declare a cabinet were fading yesterday after he said he would no longer discuss the formation of a new government with Yasser Arafat.