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The police, armed with night-vision binoculars and drones, have become skilled at spotting the moment the smugglers start to inflate their rubber boats.

If officers spot anyone they could just "look through the binoculars and ask 'what are you doing?'," he said.

No sooner does Weiss climb a bluff and whip out his binoculars than he is surrounded by “four goons” with Glocks tucked into their shorts.

From a nearby tower, two Israeli soldiers were watching us - one of them through binoculars - and my colleague held his BBC ID up for them to see.

Next to him, a fellow soldier scanned the sky with binoculars.