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Britain's Interior Minister expressed regret that pro-Palestinian protests went ahead on Thursday evening after the terror attack that claimed the lives of two men outside a Jewish place of worship in the city of Manchester.

Britain's home secretary additionally urged protesters to "reconsider" from intentions to organize marches in the coming days.

"I believe that continuing in this fashion does feel un-British, it seems wrong," she stated concerning demonstrations planned for this week.

Protesters in central London demonstrating against the Israeli navy stopping a aid convoy transporting humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip had confrontations with law enforcement outside Downing Street on Thursday evening.

Large crowds carrying Palestinian flags and banners could be observed on the government district into the night.

The Metropolitan Police announced that fourty individuals had been taken into custody. Six of those detained were detained over attacks against police officers.

"It's essential to make a distinction between events unfolding in the Middle Eastern region and situations developing at home," the minister remarked on a breakfast show on Friday.

"My message would be to people who are considering to participate in a demonstration is to pause and reflect for a minute, and think about if you had suffered the loss of a close relative to a terror attack in this country," she emphasized.

There were "substantial" powers to safeguard the freedom to demonstrate, she mentioned, but they could be overridden on the guidance of the law enforcement.

"I can act based from the police, if they were to inform me there was an inability to handle and to police the demonstrations, then there are legal measures that are accessible," she explained.

Community leaders express worries

Britain's senior rabbinical leader commented that many people of the Jewish population asked why protests in solidarity of Palestinian causes had been allowed to occur.

The group was outlawed as a terrorist organisation in July. At numerous demonstrations following the ban, numerous individuals have been detained for showing support for the organization, which has won authorization to contest the ban.

"A portion of them include outright antisemitism, direct support for Hamas. Not every single person, however there is so much of this, which certainly is risky to many within our society," the religious leader remarked.

"There's no distinction between the rhetoric on our streets, the conduct of individuals in this way, and what subsequently occurs, which was Thursday's terror incident."

He also appealed to the administration "yet again", to "take control on these demonstrations, they are dangerous."