Alan Colmes hardest hit.

Paris (AP) — Al-Jazeera’s offices in Cairo were stormed and torched and its Website hacked Friday, says the Pan-Arab broadcaster, while the top U.N. human rights official complained that media covering Egyptian pro-democracy protests are being arrested “in a blatant attempt to stifle news.”

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera — widely watched in the Middle East — portrayed the attack on its office as an attempt by Egypt’s regime or its supporters to hinder its coverage of the uprising in Egypt. Al-Jazeera said the office was burned along with the equipment inside it.

Many correspondents covering the bloody street fights in Egypt have suffered violent attacks: a Swedish journalist is recovering from being stabbed in the back, and Czech public television is withdrawing its TV crew from Egypt because of what it called “unprecedented” attacks on reporters.

“We’ve never seen anything like this. Not a single media outlet in Egypt today has escaped the violence,” said Jean-Francois Juillard, the head of Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. “It’s totally impossible to work as a journalist in Egypt today.”