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The Interior Minister expressed dismay that pro-Palestinian demonstrations proceeded on Thursday following the terrorist incident that claimed the lives of two men near a Jewish place of worship in the city of Manchester.

The home secretary additionally urged protesters to "reconsider" from plans to organize marches in the days ahead.

"In my view that continuing in this way seems contrary to British values, it seems inappropriate," she stated about protests scheduled for this week.

Demonstrators in central London protesting the Israel's naval forces intercepting a aid convoy transporting humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip clashed with law enforcement outside the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday evening.

Large crowds holding Palestinian flags and signs could be seen on the government district throughout the night.

The Metropolitan Police reported that fourty individuals had been arrested. A half-dozen of those detained were charged with attacks against police officers.

"It is important to establish separation between what is happening in the Middle East and situations developing at home," the minister stated during a morning news program on Friday.

"My message would be to individuals who are planning to go on a protest is to pause and reflect for a moment, and think about if you had lost a close relative to a terror attack in this nation," she emphasized.

There were "robust" authorities to defend the freedom to protest, she mentioned, but they could be superseded on the recommendation of the police.

"I can follow guidance from the law enforcement, if they were to advise me there was an insufficient resources to manage and to control the protests, then there are authorities that are at my disposal," she explained.

Community representatives express apprehensions

The UK's senior rabbinical leader stated that many people of the Jewish community questioned why marches in support of Palestinian causes had been authorized to occur.

The group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in July. At numerous protests since then, numerous individuals have been arrested for expressing solidarity for the organization, which has obtained permission to challenge the restriction.

"Some of them feature explicit antisemitism, direct support for the militant group. Not all participants, however there is considerable of such content, which clearly poses harmful to many within our community," the religious leader declared.

"You cannot separate the words on our streets, the conduct of people in this way, and what subsequently occurs, which was the recent violent act."

He also called on the government "yet again", to "assert authority on these demonstrations, they are dangerous."