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The Interior Minister voiced dismay that pro-Palestinian demonstrations continued on Thursday after the terrorist incident that took two lives near a Jewish place of worship in the city of Manchester.

The top security official additionally called on demonstrators to "step back" from plans to stage protests in the coming days.

"In my view that carrying on in this manner seems un-British, it seems inappropriate," she remarked concerning demonstrations scheduled for this weekend.

Protesters in central London protesting the Israel's naval forces halting a aid convoy transporting humanitarian assistance to Gaza clashed with police officers near the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday night.

Large crowds holding flags of Palestine and placards could be spotted on Whitehall into the night.

London's police force announced that fourty individuals had been taken into custody. Six of those arrested were arrested for assaults on law enforcement personnel.

"It's crucial to make a distinction between what is happening in the Middle Eastern region and what is happening at home," the home secretary remarked on a breakfast show on Friday morning.

"I would say to people who are intending to join a demonstration is to just take a step back for a short while, and think about if you had lost a family member to a terror attack in this country," she continued.

There were "substantial" powers to protect the freedom to demonstrate, she mentioned, but they could be superseded on the advice of the police.

"I can follow guidance from the law enforcement, if they were to inform me there was an insufficient resources to respond and to police the demonstrations, then there are legal measures that are at my disposal," she clarified.

Community representatives voice worries

Britain's Chief Rabbi commented that many people of the Jewish population questioned why marches in solidarity of Palestinian advocacy groups had been allowed to proceed.

The group was proscribed as a prohibited organization in July. At multiple protests since then, numerous individuals have been detained for expressing solidarity for the group, which has secured authorization to dispute the restriction.

"Some of them include blatant anti-Jewish sentiment, outright backing for Hamas. Not everyone involved, however there is considerable of these elements, which clearly poses risky to many within our community," the chief rabbi remarked.

"It's impossible to disconnect the words on our public spaces, the actions of individuals in this way, and what inevitably results, which was yesterday's terrorist attack."

He also appealed to the government "repeatedly", to "assert authority on these protests, they are harmful."