RNE and the RTVE.es Lab premiere 'Vivir Gaza', an interactive podcast by correspondent Cristina Sánchez

A project by RNE's Middle East correspondent that aims to reflect life in the Strip, not document death.

National Radio of Spain and the Lab de RTVE They launch the interactive podcast Living Gaza, with script and voice over Cristina Sanchez, RNE's correspondent for the Middle East. You will discover surprising stories of anonymous people who do not give up enjoying life in a conflict zone like Gaza.

A project that combines audio with photographic post-production and 360º images in this sound documentary series available for desktop and mobile in podcast format. Every Thursday, a new chapter of this journey into the recesses of an open-air prison will be available on the RNE website and app.

An entire generation of Palestinians in Gaza have lived through three wars since they were born, but they live. The threat of a possible outbreak of violence does not prevent them from carrying out a daily life characterized by work (despite the high unemployment rate), family, household chores and leisure. Cristina Sánchez knows well what life in the Gaza Strip sounds like and has decided to tell it.

Entering Gaza's Google Street View reveals a narrow strip of land that looks like nowhere else. This service, so common in the rest of the world, is not available there, so the RTVE.es Laboratory has implemented in Cristina Sánchez's narration the 360º photographs that Palestinians residing in Gaza have uploaded to the internet to understand what the squares, shops or the beach are like.

Cristina Sánchez, winner of the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award in 2018, has covered the current Arab-Israeli conflict since 2008. Every time she went to Gaza she always found people who invited her to show them how they lived or to share tea with them. Therefore, this interactive podcast aims to reflect life, not document death.

Living Gaza It consists of five chapters that delve into the routine of university students who go to classrooms daily in search of a future and with the great unknown of whether once they graduate they will be able to work; investigates how sport can become a successful occupational therapy for those who were deeply affected by the conflict; portrays the daily effort of entrepreneurs who work side by side in a coworking to open new job opportunities; It reaches the Mediterranean, the only place where you can breathe freedom in this open-air prison, and reflects the similarities between cultures when it comes to talking about music.

A multiplatform project

It's not just the sounds that will transport you to the Strip. The desktop experience of this project will offer the user the opportunity to get to know the corners and streets of Gaza thanks to the photographic post-production prepared by the RTVE.es Lab.

Living Gaza will also be available in RNE Only on Podcast, the public radio web space to listen to native content, to which collections such as My life is a cliffhanger, a pretty corpse, LiterCast, binaural sound fictions and Dreamers.