Gaza militants blew up a donkey cart laden with explosives close to the border with Israel on Tuesday, militants and the Israeli military said.

Abu Ghassan, spokesman for a small Syrian-backed militant group in Gaza, says more than 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of dynamite were heaped on the animal-drawn cart. He says the explosives were detonated Tuesday 200 feet (60 meters) from the large concrete wall that separates Gaza from Israel.

The animal was killed in the blast, but there were no reports of human casualties. Israeli troops routinely patrol the border, and impoverished Gazans often gather rubble in the area.

Commenting on the blast, the Israeli military said in a statement: "This incident is yet another attempt by terrorists to conceal their operations using agricultural activities for cover."

The statement also said Gaza militants fired two mortars into Israel Tuesday. No one was hurt.

In Jerusalem on Tuesday, An Israeli court upheld an order to a group of Jewish settlers to evacuate a building in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem District Court rejected an appeal from the building's residents to stop the evacuation and the sealing of the seven-story structure, known as Beit Yonatan, in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan just outside the walls of the Old City.

An earlier court order determined that settlers had illegally built parts of the building in 2004.

The building has become a flashpoint for conflict between Jews and Arabs in the neighborhood, where there is a pending demolition order for hundreds of illegally constructed Arab homes.

The issue of Jerusalem is the most explosive in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it, building Jewish neighborhoods around the Palestinian section.

Also, small groups of ultranationalist settlers laid claim to properties in Arab neighborhoods and moved in, as in Silwan.

It remained unclear whether the evacuation would be carried out. The settlers can still appeal the decision to Israel's Supreme Court.

Also Tuesday, Israeli prosecutors charged a former border policeman with "death by negligence" in the shooting of a 10-year-old boy in the West Bank village of Naalin in July 2008.

The indictment accuses the soldier, Omri Abu, of violating Israeli army policy by firing "without justification or approval" on a crowd protesting Israel's West Bank separation barrier. After the incident, Abu was dismissed from the paramilitary border police.