Right-wing Israeli politicians from the governing coalition and the opposition denounced Defense Minister Benny Gantz for hosting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’Ayin this week.

Abbas was joined by adviser Hussein al-Sheikh and PA intelligence chief Majed Faraj. Gantz and Abbas spoke alone for part of the two-and-a-half hour meeting. The encounter marked the first time since 2010 that Abbas crossed the Green Line for talks in Jerusalem with then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Abbas also attended the funeral of Shimon Peres in 2016. Although he greeted Netanyahu, the two held no discussions.

According to various reports, Gantz had offered Abbas a series of “confidence-building measures” as described by the Israeli Defense Ministry, which included economic benefits to the P.A. with regard to VAT, import taxes and excise duties; a NIS 100 million ($32.2 million) loan; 1,100 entry permits for Palestinian businessmen; and dozens of VIP permits for senior P.A. officials.

Gantz’s other concession to the Palestinians includes the legalization of the status of 9,500 undocumented Palestinians and foreigners living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

The Defense Ministry said Gantz and Abbas also discussed construction plans for Palestinian homes.

Israel’s Kan News reported that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was notified ahead of time and criticized the meeting. While Bennett opposes peace talks with the Palestinians, his government is helping prop up the struggling Palestinian Authority.

Two cabinet ministers from the New Hope party, a coalition partner, assailed Gantz for holding the meeting and also for not notifying the cabinet in advance.

“I wouldn’t have invited to my home someone who pays salaries to murderers of Israelis and also wants to put senior IDF officers in prison in The Hague, including the host himself,” said Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin to 103 FM.

Gantz has “no leeway from the government to hold peace negotiations, and he knows it,” Elkin insisted.

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel told Kan News he “personally wouldn’t have met” with Abbas, who “in my eyes is still a Holocaust denier and is playing a very strange double game.”

Opposition figures added their criticism.

A Likud statement said that “the Israeli-Palestinian government of Bennett is returning [Abbas] and the Palestinians to center stage” and insisted that “it’s only a matter of time until there are dangerous concessions to the Palestinians.”

A similar statement was released by the Religious Zionism party.

However, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the meeting was “important for both Israel’s security and its international status. Security and civilian coordination with the PA is essential to Israel’s security.”