Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Syria committed "a war crime" by subjecting residents to a range of abuses -- including forced displacement and the demolition of homes -- and called for the suspension of military support to Israel.

The New York-based international human rights organization said in a report released in Beirut that the abuses also included denial of access to livelihoods and arbitrary detention of a number of Syrians and their "unlawful transfer" to Israel.

The rights group said that after the ouster of the Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in December, Israel advanced into the U.N.-monitored demilitarized zone that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the portion of Quneitra governorate that remained unde

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