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For months, the Australian government has hastily imprisoned people it deems to be a risk of contracting or infecting others with COVID-19 and forced them into isolation in state-sanctioned quarantine camps.According to 26-year-old Hayley Hodgson, who spent weeks in a quarantine camp despite the fact that she never tested positive for COVID-19, being locked up in this manner is “like you’re in a prison.”“It’s horrible. It’s a horrible feeling,” Hodgson told Freddie Sayers of UnHerd. “You feel like you’re in prison. You feel like you’ve done something wrong. It’s inhumane what they’re doing. You are so small, they just overpower...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Not big news abroad Many of the readers of the popular Portuguese daily Publico probably skipped the short item on page 13 of yesterday's edition. Under the headline "Saramago compares the Israeli occupation to Auschwitz," the paper quoted the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate's remarks in Ramallah that caused such a storm in Israel. "Every day, we give wide coverage to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but we were not aware of the powerful reaction that the statement aroused in Israel,"...