El Ejército de Israel informó que su territorio fue blanco de misiles iraníes este domingo, por primera vez desde el cese el fuego del 8 de abril.

“Hace poco, el Ejército identificó misiles lanzados desde Irán hacia el territorio de Israel” señaló un comunicado militar.

El Ejército israelí aseguró haber interceptado todos los misiles lanzados por Irán, un total de 11, según informaron fuentes militares, en el que supone el primer ataque de Teherán contra el Estado hebreo desde el alto el fuego de abril.

Las alarmas antiaéreas sonaron en cuatro ocasiones en diferentes zonas del norte de Israel durante media hora desde las 22.00 hora local, tras lo que el Ejército dio por concluido a las 22.47 el “incidente” y permitió a los ciudadanos salir de los refugios. Las clases del lunes fueron suspendidas.

La ofensiva iraní se produjo después de ataques israelíes contra los suburbios del sur de Beirut, bastión del movimiento libanés proiraní Hezbolláh.

Poco después, el Ejército iraní advirtió a Israel de que si responde a los ataques o vuelve a bombardear el Líbano se “enfrentará a una respuesta devastadora”.

“Si (Israel) amplía sus ataques a esa zona (en Líbano) o responde a la acción de Irán con ataques más devastadores y punitivos, se enfrentará a una respuesta devastadora contra el régimen y sus partidarios”, dijo el jefe del Comando Unificado de Operaciones Khatam al-Anbiya, el general de división Ali Abdolahi, en un comunicado citado por medios iraníes.

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Irán lanzó este domingo varias oleadas de misiles contra Israel como represalia por los ataques del Estado judío contra el Líbano, informó la televisión estatal iraní.

“Irán ha lanzado misiles contra Israel”, informó IRIB (siglas en inglés de la televisión estatal).

El medio oficial mostró imágenes de misiles sobrevolando el cielo en la occidental provincia iraní de Kermanshah y de personas celebrando la nueva ofensiva en las calles.

Mientras se producía el ataque el ministro iraní de Exteriores, Abás Araqchí, publicó en su cuenta de X una imagen de la bandera iraní y del Líbano.

La ofensiva militar se produce después de que Irán advirtiese que, si se seguían produciendo los ataques de Israel contra el Líbano, la República Islámica tomaría represalias al considerar que el alto el fuego que alcanzó con Estados Unidos el 8 de abril incluye a la nación árabe.

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El presidente del Parlamento y negociador jefe iraní, Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf, afirmó que los ataques de Israel contra el Líbano convierten a las bases de ambos países en objetivos legítimos.

“El bloqueo naval contra la nación iraní y la luz verde que hoy ha dado Estados Unidos al régimen sionista convierten a las bases y los activos estadounidenses y del régimen en la región en objetivos legítimos”, dijo en X el político y ex general de la Guardia Revolucionaria.

Poco antes el portavoz de la Comisión de Seguridad Nacional del Parlamento iraní, Ebrahim Rezaei, advirtió que Irán responderá “con firmeza y dureza” al ataque de Israel contra el barrio de Dahye de la capital del Líbano.

“Responderemos con firmeza y dureza al ataque del régimen sionista contra Dahye”, dijo en X el influyente político conservador.

Este bombardeo contra el Dahye es el primero desde que el Líbano e Israel acordaran el miércoles un alto el fuego condicionado al cese de los ataques y sin presencia de Hizbollah, aliado iraní que rechazó la propuesta y volvió a llamar a las autoridades locales a abandonar las negociaciones.

Los ataques coinciden con la llegada a Teherán del ministro del Interior de Pakistán, Mohsin Naqvi, para entregar un “mensaje especial” para el líder supremo iraní, Mojtaba Jameneí, relativo a las estancadas negociaciones de paz entre Irán y Estados Unidos.

Teherán exige que acaben los ataques contra el Líbano como parte del proceso de negociaciones para alcanzar un acuerdo que ponga fin a la guerra iniciada en febrero y permita la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz, una vía clave para el comercio mundial de petróleo y gas.

(Con información de EFE y AFP)

Idaho resident Aaron Hutchings arrived at a Pakistani brick factory in January. The devout Christian told Fox News Digital that he was shocked to see children turning bricks under the hot sun to work off the debts that their families had incurred, sometimes over the course of generations.

Within hours of his arrival, Hutchings paid off the debts for two enslaved Christian families and escorted them to freedom, breaking the «curse that they’ve had for hundreds of years.»

There are up to one million Christians working in slave and bonded labor in Pakistan, according to Emma Hall, a persecution researcher working with charity Open Doors U.K. and Ireland, told Fox News Digital. This could comprise as much as 30% of Pakistani Christians, counted at 3.3 million in the 2023 census and accounting for 1.37 percent of the population.

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Hall noted that «extreme poverty drives desperate families to accept advance loans (peshgri) for emergency and basic needs, trapping them in cycles of debt bondage where repayment systems are structured in ways that make exit extremely difficult.»

Emmanuel Hernandez said he was shocked when he first heard that Christians in Pakistan were living in debt-based enslavement in Pakistan’s brick-making industry. After traveling to Pakistan to meet the woman who would later become his wife, Hernandez witnessed bonded laborers at a brick factory for the first time.

«Never in my life have I seen such hopelessness,» he told Fox News Digital. «At that moment, I committed myself to rescuing one family a year for the rest of my life.»

In January 2025, Hernandez started the nonprofit Project Jubilee. He says that it is «by the grace of God» that people have already donated enough through the nonprofit to save 300 Pakistanis from slavery.

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Born into bonded labor in Pakistan, children must flip bricks in the hot sun outside of Lahore, Pakistan.  (Courtesy: Aaron Hutchings. )

Though Project Jubilee will save any bonded slave, regardless of race or faith, Hernandez said that «98% of the people we rescue are Christians, and that’s because they’re second-class citizens» in their country.

The average cost to help one family is about $8,500, Hernandez said, because Project Jubilee recognizes that slaves needed more than debt relief to escape the cycle of bonded labor.

«Our goal is for them to succeed in life and make sure that they never go back,» he explained. To accomplish this, Hernandez and his team pay lawyers to take care of all applicable paperwork, and help each family with two months of rent and food. They also get families in touch with a local minister, pay for children to attend school and purchase every family a tuk tuk, a motorcycle taxi, which they can use to create income.

He said that in most cases, factory owners are grudgingly accepting of letting slaves go after their debts are paid off. But in some cases, he says owners have put a cap on the number of families Hernandez’s group can free in a month, or told them that they’re «never allowed to come back again.»

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A family of brickmakers speak with American Christian Aaron Hutchings before learning they will be freed from their debt.  (Courtesy: Aaron Hutchings.)

Hutchings found Hernandez’s online profile in late 2025 and messaged him, asking to be part of his effort. Retired from the IT world, Hutchings said he is «just a normal guy who wanted to do something…to help people.»

After a short conversation over the phone, Hernandez invited Hutchings to come along to a trip to Pakistan in January. Hutchings agreed. It was during this visit that Hutchings freed two families and reported he «just got hooked.» He admits that the process is highly emotional. «It changes an entire family’s future for generations,» he explained.

Hutchings said that it is especially impactful to witness the change that freedom brings to children. «We get to ask them, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?» Hutchings said. «They probably haven’t even really thought about that. They’re [thinking] ‘I’m going to be a brick worker for the rest of my life, just like my parents.’»

Hutchings started his own nonprofit, Intentional Faith Foundation, which he now uses to collect donations from people who want to help free more slaves.

Christians demanded justice during a protest in Islamabad condemning attacks on churches in Pakistan on August 20, 2023. Pakistan is one of the top 10 worst countries for Christian persecution, according to a new report. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)

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Just months after his first journey, Hutchings returned to Pakistan in May to free an additional ten families. After video of his visit went viral, Hutchings said that his nonprofit raised enough funds to save another family from enslavement.

The practice of bonded slavery was outlawed formally in Pakistan in 1992, Hall says, but «enforcement remains weak.» Discrimination extends beyond the bonded labor environment, with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom noting in 2025 that there were «recent and escalating attacks against religious minorities» in Pakistan, including Christians.

During his recent visit, Hutchings learned that securing housing was difficult, with many landlords refusing to rent to Christians. Eventually, a Pakistani Christian group working with families was able to find housing and jobs for parents, and located a teacher for the children who were largely illiterate.

After paying the debts of a family of Pakistani Christians, Aaron Hutchings embraces a newly-freed brick laborer. Courtesy of Aaron Hutchings. (Courtesy: Aaron Hutchings.)

In a 2023 report, Pakistan’s National Commission for Human Rights released a series of recommendations for diminishing the pain that bonded labor brings to approximately three million Pakistanis. In her introduction, the group’s chairperson stated, «It is deeply appalling that in the 21st century, slavery persists in the form of bonded labor.»

Among its recommendations are forbidding children from laboring in brick kilns, helping laborers access justice and creating unions for collective representation. They suggest registering all brick kilns, increasing the use of automated machinery, and encouraging brick purchasers to buy bricks from kilns «that provide a safe and decent working environment.»

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Representatives of the Pakistani government did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about the enforcement of laws against bonded labor, or about the treatment of Pakistani Christians. Neither Hutchings nor Hernandez reported having complications with the Pakistani government when working to free brick kiln laborers.

For Hutchings, the work has been transformative. «Looking back, it is hard to see any of it as random. I believe God’s hand was in it from the beginning, and even though we were doing all of this to show Jesus’ love towards these people, we ended up receiving more than we gave.»

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