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The Interior Minister expressed regret that pro-Palestinian demonstrations proceeded on Thursday after the terror attack that claimed two lives near a synagogue in Manchester.

The top security official also called on demonstrators to "reconsider" from plans to hold marches in the next few days.

"I believe that proceeding in this way appears contrary to British values, it feels inappropriate," she remarked regarding protests arranged for this weekend.

Protesters in downtown London demonstrating against the Israel's naval forces stopping a aid convoy carrying humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip confronted with law enforcement near the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday evening.

Numerous people displaying Palestinian flags and banners could be seen on the government district into the evening.

London's Metropolitan Police announced that fourty individuals had been arrested. Six of those arrested were detained over assaults on police officers.

"It's crucial to draw a line between events unfolding in the Middle Eastern region and situations developing at home," the minister told a morning news program on Friday morning.

"My message would be to people who are considering to join a demonstration is to reconsider briefly for a short while, and imagine if you had lost a close relative to a terrorist incident in this nation," she added.

There were "robust" measures to defend the freedom to demonstrate, she mentioned, but they could be overridden on the advice of the police.

"I can take my lead from the law enforcement, if they were to inform me there was an insufficient resources to handle and to police the demonstrations, then there are powers that are accessible," she clarified.

Community representatives express apprehensions

Britain's senior rabbinical leader commented that many people of the Jewish population questioned why marches in solidarity of Palestinian causes had been authorized to take place.

The movement was proscribed as a terror group in the summer. At multiple demonstrations after that, numerous individuals have been arrested for demonstrating backing for the group, which has won permission to challenge the ban.

"A portion of them contain outright anti-Jewish sentiment, clear backing for the militant group. Not everyone involved, however there is considerable of such content, which clearly poses harmful to many within our community," the chief rabbi declared.

"You cannot separate the words on our public spaces, the actions of people in this way, and what subsequently occurs, which was Thursday's violent act."

Additionally, he urged the administration "once more", to "take control on these protests, they are dangerous."