Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners entered day 24 of their open-ended hunger strike on Wednesday despite their suffering from ongoing health deterioration.

The hunger strike’s media committee said that the hunger strikers are determined to continue their hunger strike despite their health suffering and their exposure to punitive measures.

The committee stated, in a press release, that hundreds of prisoners suffer from movement difficulties, stomach and head pains, severe throat dryness and other health complications, and some refrained of taking water for several hours because they could not easily go to bathrooms.

According to the committee, the Israeli prison authority transferred on Tuesday dozens of hunger strikers from al-Ramla jail to a field hospital and persistently refused to allow a lawyer from the Commission of Detainees from visiting hunger-striking Fatah prisoner Marwan al-Barghouthi in al-Jalama jail.

Many hunger-striking prisoners were reportedly forced during the last few days to drink hot water from bathroom taps and were exposed to physical assaults, strip search, trials inside jails, and financial penalties.