PALIS ATTACK OBSERVER MISSION IN HEBRON

Palestinians Attack Mission (FoxNews)
HEBRON, West Bank — Hundreds of Palestinians attacked an international observer mission in this volatile city Wednesday, throwing stones and smashing windows as dozens of foreigners were trapped inside — the most violent West Bank protest yet against Danish cartoons seen as insulting to Islam.

At one point, rioters forced open a door of the building and got inside, and the unarmed observers waved clubs in an attempt to drive them off. Palestinian police, initially outnumbered, eventually pushed back the crowd, and the foreigners began leaving the city.

In the West Bank, meanwhile, an international observer force — the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, or TIPH — came under attack Wednesday by an angry crowd. TIPH was deployed in 1994 and serves as a buffer between Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the city.

Eleven Danish members of TIPH left more than a week ago after protests against the Danish cartoons began sweeping across the Muslim world, said TIPH spokeswoman Gunhild Forselv.

The protesters, most of them youths, chased away outnumbered Palestinian police who were stationed outside the mission more than a week ago because of the unrest, Forselv said... Forselv said all 60 members of the mission's foreign staff who had been inside the building had decided to leave Hebron for their own safety.