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Britain's Home Secretary conveyed dismay that Palestinian-supporting protests proceeded on Thursday evening following the terrorist incident that took two lives near a synagogue in Manchester.

Britain's home secretary also called on demonstrators to "pause" from intentions to organize marches in the next few days.

"I believe that continuing in this way does feel un-British, it feels misguided," she stated concerning demonstrations scheduled for this weekend.

Protesters in downtown London demonstrating against the Israeli navy intercepting a aid convoy carrying aid to the Gaza Strip confronted with law enforcement outside the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday evening.

Substantial groups carrying flags of Palestine and signs could be spotted on Whitehall into the evening.

The Metropolitan Police reported that fourty individuals had been taken into custody. Six of those arrested were arrested for assaults on law enforcement personnel.

"It's essential to draw a line between what is happening in the Middle Eastern region and what is happening at in our country," the home secretary remarked on a breakfast show on Friday morning.

"I would advise to people who are planning to participate in a demonstration is to reconsider briefly for a minute, and think about if you had suffered the loss of a family member to a terror attack in this nation," she continued.

There were "robust" authorities to protect the right to demonstrate, she noted, but they could be superseded on the advice of the law enforcement.

"I can act based from the police, if they were to tell me there was an insufficient resources to respond and to control the protests, then there are powers that are accessible," she elaborated.

Jewish community representatives express apprehensions

Britain's senior rabbinical leader remarked that many people of the Jewish population asked why marches in support of Palestinian causes had been permitted to occur.

The group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the summer. At multiple protests following the ban, numerous individuals have been arrested for expressing solidarity for the group, which has secured permission to challenge the ban.

"Some of them contain explicit antisemitism, direct backing for Hamas. Not every single person, however there is so much of these elements, which clearly poses harmful to many within our community," the religious leader stated.

"You cannot separate the words on our streets, the conduct of people in this manner, and what inevitably results, which was the recent terrorist attack."

He also called on the administration "repeatedly", to "get a grip on these demonstrations, they are dangerous."