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The Interior Minister expressed dismay that pro-Palestinian demonstrations went ahead on Thursday after the terror attack that took the lives of two men outside a synagogue in Manchester.

The home secretary additionally appealed to protesters to "pause" from plans to hold protests in the days ahead.

"In my view that proceeding in this way seems un-British, it feels inappropriate," the minister commented about demonstrations planned for this weekend.

Demonstrators in central London demonstrating against the Israeli navy intercepting a aid convoy carrying humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip had confrontations with police officers outside the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday night.

Substantial groups carrying Palestinian flags and signs could be seen on the government district throughout the night.

The Metropolitan Police reported that fourty individuals had been detained. A half-dozen of those arrested were charged with attacks against police officers.

"It's essential to establish separation between events unfolding in the Middle Eastern region and situations developing at home," the home secretary told a television interview on Friday.

"I would advise to people who are intending to participate in a protest is to reconsider briefly for a short while, and imagine if you had lost a close relative to a terror attack in this nation," she continued.

There were "robust" measures to protect the right to protest, she noted, but they could be superseded on the guidance of the police.

"I can follow guidance from the law enforcement, if they were to advise me there was an inability to respond and to oversee the demonstrations, then there are powers that are available," she explained.

Community representatives express concerns

The UK's Chief Rabbi remarked that many people of the Jewish population questioned why protests in solidarity of Palestinian advocacy groups had been allowed to proceed.

The group was proscribed as a terror group in July. At numerous protests since then, numerous individuals have been arrested for expressing solidarity for the organization, which has secured authorization to challenge the ban.

"Some of them include outright anti-Jewish sentiment, clear backing for the militant group. Not every single person, however there is so much of such content, which certainly is harmful to many within our society," the chief rabbi remarked.

"There's no distinction between the words on our streets, the actions of people in this way, and what ultimately follows, which was the recent violent act."

Additionally, he called on the government "repeatedly", to "get a grip on these protests, they are dangerous."