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Britain's Home Secretary expressed dismay that Palestinian-supporting demonstrations proceeded on Thursday evening after the terror attack that claimed two lives near a synagogue in the city of Manchester.

Britain's top security official additionally appealed to protesters to "step back" from plans to hold marches in the days ahead.

"I do think that carrying on in this manner seems contrary to British values, it feels wrong," she stated regarding protests planned for this weekend.

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

Numerous people displaying Palestinian flags and signs could be spotted on the government district into the evening.

The police force announced that 40 people had been taken into custody. Six of those arrested were charged with assaults on law enforcement personnel.

"It's crucial to draw a line between events unfolding in the Middle East and situations developing at home," the home secretary told a breakfast show on Friday morning.

"I would advise to people who are planning to join a protest is to just take a step back for a short while, and imagine if you had lost a close relative to a terrorist incident in this nation," she emphasized.

There were "substantial" measures to safeguard the freedom to protest, she mentioned, but they could be set aside on the recommendation of the police.

"I can act based from the police, if they were to tell me there was an lack of capacity to respond and to control the demonstrations, then there are powers that are at my disposal," she elaborated.

Jewish community representatives express worries

Britain's Chief Rabbi commented that many members of the Jewish community questioned why protests in support of Palestinian advocacy groups had been permitted to occur.

The organization was proscribed as a terror group in the summer. At multiple demonstrations since then, hundreds have been detained for expressing solidarity for the group, which has won permission to challenge the proscription.

"Some of them include outright antisemitism, outright backing for Hamas. Not all participants, however there is considerable of such content, which clearly poses risky to many within our society," the religious leader remarked.

"You cannot separate the speech on our public spaces, the actions of individuals in this manner, and what ultimately follows, which was the recent terrorist attack."

Additionally, he urged the government "once more", to "assert authority on these protests, they are dangerous."