MADELEINE BRAND, host: As the diplomats talked, Israeli and Hezbollah traded more rockets and bombs. And Israel threatened to expand its offensive if the diplomacy fails.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: Yesterday, Israel suffered its highest single-day death toll in this war: 15 killed in Hezbollah attacks. Today, Israel warplanes struck the Lebanese coastal town of Gazia(ph). Three buildings were hit and rescuers have found at least two bodies so far. Many more are believed buried in the rubble.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: NPR's Ivan Watson was at the scene of one dramatic rescue.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: IVAN WATSON reporting:</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: Rescue workers just raced away in an ambulance carrying 16-year-old Sahai Zabad(ph). This girl was buried for more than nine hours under the rubble of a four-story house, rescue workers here cutting through three floors of concrete and iron, using jackhammers, blow torches, at times their bare hands, scissors, knives, to try to get through all of that rubble to reach the 16-year-old girl who throughout the whole ordeal was screaming and crying and wailing to the rescuers. At times we heard her yelling, Please, I don't want to die. Please get me out of here.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: The rescuers repeated again and again to her (foreign word) Sahai, Yallah. We're coming. We're coming. I saw one body pulled out of one of the other three houses that was demolished today by Israeli air strikes, a man. And then I saw a woman pulled out of the third of the three houses.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: I also saw a woman's hand and forearm pulled out and a scalp of a woman pulled out.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: That's NPR's Ivan Watson in Gazia, Lebanon.
Israeli forces on the hunt for Hezbollah militants and rocket firing sites targeted the Lebanese coastal city of Gaziye. The attack destroyed a four-story building, trapping a 16-year-old Lebanese girl in the rubble.