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The Home Secretary expressed dismay that pro-Palestinian protests proceeded on Thursday after the terrorist incident that took two lives outside a Jewish place of worship in the city of Manchester.

The home secretary additionally appealed to demonstrators to "reconsider" from intentions to organize marches in the days ahead.

"I do think that carrying on in this manner seems un-British, it seems inappropriate," she stated regarding demonstrations planned for this weekend.

Protesters in downtown London demonstrating against the Israeli navy intercepting a aid convoy carrying aid to the Gaza Strip clashed with law enforcement near the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday night.

Numerous people holding flags of Palestine and banners could be observed on Whitehall into the night.

London's Metropolitan Police reported that 40 people had been detained. Six of those detained were detained over assaults on police officers.

"It is important to draw a line between what is happening in the Middle East and situations developing at home," the minister remarked on a morning news program on Friday.

"My message would be to individuals who are planning to participate in a protest is to pause and reflect for a short while, and imagine if you had suffered the loss of a close relative to a terror attack in this nation," she emphasized.

There were "substantial" authorities to safeguard the right to demonstrate, she stated, but they could be set aside on the advice of the law enforcement.

"I can take my lead from the law enforcement, if they were to advise me there was an inability to handle and to oversee the demonstrations, then there are legal measures that are at my disposal," she explained.

Community representatives express worries

Britain's senior rabbinical leader remarked that many people of the Jewish community wondered why protests in solidarity of Palestinian causes had been permitted to take place.

The movement was proscribed as a terror group in July. At various demonstrations since then, numerous individuals have been arrested for expressing solidarity for the group, which has won authorization to dispute the proscription.

"Some of them include explicit anti-Jewish sentiment, outright support for the militant group. Not everyone involved, however there is so much of this, which undoubtedly represents risky to many within our community," the chief rabbi declared.

"There's no distinction between the speech on our streets, the behavior of individuals in this manner, and what inevitably results, which was yesterday's terror incident."

He also urged the government "yet again", to "take control on these protests, they are harmful."