Woman’s fight to secure son’s release marked with tape every day

Rachel Goldberg is leading the fight for the safe return of her son (Maya Alleruzzo/AP/PA)

The mother of a man who was taken hostage after the Hamas cross-border raid into Israel on October 7 has described her fight to secure his return as the war reaches the 100-day mark.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was last seen on October 7 when militants loaded him into the back of a pick-up truck with other people who were abducted from a southern Israel music festival where more than 300 attendees were killed.