An Oxfam commissioned poll, conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion, was published on April 15, 2007. It concluded that the "Financial Boycott Pushes Palestinians into poverty and essential services to meltdown," by interviewing 667 Palestinians families about their income levels before and after Hamas' electoral success.  The poll ignores Palestinian corruption, factional in-fighting, and terrorism as cause of Palestinian poverty and neglects to mention that international aid to the Palestinians has actually increased since the election of Hamas.