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The Interior Minister conveyed dismay that pro-Palestinian protests proceeded on Thursday following the terror attack that took two lives near a synagogue in the city of Manchester.

Britain's top security official additionally urged demonstrators to "reconsider" from plans to organize marches in the next few days.

"I believe that proceeding in this manner seems un-British, it feels wrong," she remarked concerning demonstrations scheduled for this week.

Protesters in central London protesting the Israel's naval forces stopping a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza clashed with law enforcement near Downing Street on Thursday night.

Substantial groups holding flags of Palestine and signs could be spotted on Whitehall throughout the evening.

London's Metropolitan Police reported that fourty individuals had been arrested. A half-dozen of those detained were charged with attacks against law enforcement personnel.

"It's essential to draw a line between what is happening in the Middle Eastern region and what is happening at home," the minister told a television interview on Friday.

"I would advise to individuals who are intending to join a protest is to reconsider briefly for a minute, and imagine if you had lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country," she added.

There were "robust" powers to protect the freedom to protest, she mentioned, but they could be superseded on the advice of the law enforcement.

"I can act based from the police, if they were to advise me there was an lack of capacity to handle and to control the protests, then there are authorities that are at my disposal," she clarified.

Jewish community leaders express apprehensions

Britain's senior rabbinical leader remarked that many people of the Jewish population questioned why protests in support of Palestinian advocacy groups had been permitted to proceed.

The organization was outlawed as a prohibited organization in the summer. At numerous demonstrations following the ban, numerous individuals have been detained for showing support for the group, which has secured approval to contest the proscription.

"Some of them feature blatant antisemitism, outright backing for Hamas. Not all participants, however there is a significant amount of such content, which undoubtedly represents risky to many within our society," the religious leader stated.

"You cannot separate the rhetoric on our streets, the behavior of individuals in this manner, and what subsequently occurs, which was Thursday's violent act."

Additionally, he called on the government "once more", to "take control on these protests, they are risky."