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Britain's Interior Minister conveyed regret that pro-Palestinian protests continued on Thursday following the terrorist incident that claimed two lives near a synagogue in Manchester.

Britain's home secretary also appealed to protesters to "pause" from plans to hold marches in the coming days.

"I believe that proceeding in this fashion seems contrary to British values, it seems misguided," the minister commented concerning protests planned for this week.

Protesters in central London demonstrating against the Israeli navy stopping a aid convoy carrying humanitarian assistance to Gaza confronted with police officers near the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday evening.

Numerous people holding Palestinian flags and banners could be observed on the government district into the evening.

The police force stated that fourty individuals had been arrested. A half-dozen of those apprehended were detained over attacks against police officers.

"It's essential to draw a line between events unfolding in the Middle East and what is happening at in our country," the minister told a breakfast show on Friday.

"I would advise to people who are planning to go on a protest is to reconsider briefly for a short while, and imagine if you had suffered the loss of a family member to a terror attack in this country," she added.

There were "robust" measures to protect the right to demonstrate, she mentioned, but they could be overridden on the advice of the law enforcement.

"I can follow guidance from the police, if they were to inform me there was an insufficient resources to manage and to police the demonstrations, then there are legal measures that are accessible," she explained.

Jewish community representatives voice apprehensions

The UK's senior rabbinical leader remarked that many members of the Jewish population wondered why marches in support of Palestinian advocacy groups had been allowed to proceed.

The movement was proscribed as a prohibited organization in the summer. At multiple demonstrations since then, numerous individuals have been taken into custody for demonstrating backing for the organization, which has secured authorization to challenge the proscription.

"Some of them feature outright antisemitism, clear backing for the militant group. Not all participants, however there is a significant amount of this, which clearly poses harmful to many within our society," the chief rabbi stated.

"You cannot separate the speech on our public spaces, the conduct of individuals in this way, and what inevitably results, which was the recent terror incident."

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