Geoffrey Miller: International geopolitical analyst on the 400 killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes

The war in Gaza appears to be back to square one. 

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 400 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight, ending a fragile truce that began in January. 

Israel is vowing to ramp up the attacks towards Hamas.  

International geopolitical analyst Geoffrey Miller told Mike Hosking it's been the deadliest 24 hour period since November 2023. 

He says things are looking grim, with Israel's Defence Minister warning he'll open the gates of hell if the remaining hostages aren't released. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As well as launched these new strikes and Gaza negotiations
for the past couple of weeks. We're going nowhere. Of course,
the international geopolitical analyst Jeffrey Miller is back with us.
Jeffrey morning, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Mind.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
This does have the same old, same old feel about it,
isn't It wasn't very hard to predict that Phase two
probably wasn't going to be a thing and the bombs
would start falling again. Where does this go? Do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes? Look, the surprise really was that the cease fire
lasted as long as it did, almost two whole months,
and it was a success. It took Gaza off the
front pages for around eight weeks and we started looking
at tariffs and back to the war in Ukraine. But
now we're back at square one and it was the
deadiest twenty four hour period in the war since November
twenty twenty three, over four hundred kils. It's a desperately

(00:42):
sad situation and we absolutely need to keep applicating for
that ceasefire to be resumed because it's now looking increasingly grim.
Israel's Defense minister is promising the gates as Hell will
open if Hamas does not release the remaining twenty four
hostage and it could go from bad to words.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Is Israel right, give us the hostages and we've got
a deal, and they haven't handed over the hostages.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, look, the devil is always in the detail. There
has been some real success with the CSIRE since January,
you've had twenty five hostages released alive. I think the
correct approach would have been to continue negotiating and the
talks we're on going. The official first phase of the
CSIRE ended in the start of March, and since then
we've been in a holding period. But negotiations broke down

(01:29):
and Doha at the weekend over the extension of the Cespire.
Hamas wanted to move into phase two, Israel wanted to
extend phase one, and now Israel has just gone in
with a military approach. It's been greenlit by Donald Trump.
So Donald Trump deserved a lot of the credit for
bringing that Ceespire about in January, but he also deserves
the blame now for allowing this to happen. And ultimately

(01:51):
the only way through now here is through Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is incredibly powerful. We saw how Joe Biden
was very impotent when it came to gather and Niznyakho
did what he please. Trump does hold all the cards,
as he might say on Gaza.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
At the moment, all R Jeffrey appreciate it Jeffrey Miller,
international geopolitical analyst, But he won't be feeling particularly good
about the phone calling. He might be a bit stretched.
I mean, there's only so many things you can promise
and eventually you got to deliver it.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
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