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Britain's Home Secretary voiced dismay that Palestinian-supporting protests proceeded on Thursday after the terror attack that took two lives outside a Jewish place of worship in the city of 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 seems un-British, it feels misguided," she remarked concerning protests planned for this week.

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

Substantial groups displaying Palestinian flags and placards could be seen on the government district into the night.

London's police force stated that fourty individuals had been taken into custody. Six of those apprehended were arrested for assaults on police officers.

"It is important to make a distinction between what is happening in the Middle East and what is happening at in our country," the home secretary remarked on a morning news program on Friday.

"I would say to individuals who are planning to go on a protest is to reconsider briefly for a short while, and consider if you had lost a family member to a terrorist incident in this nation," she added.

There were "substantial" powers to protect the freedom to demonstrate, she mentioned, but they could be superseded on the guidance of the law enforcement.

"I can take my lead from the police, if they were to advise me there was an inability to handle and to police the demonstrations, then there are legal measures that are at my disposal," she explained.

Jewish community leaders voice worries

The UK's senior rabbinical leader commented that many members of the Jewish community wondered why marches in solidarity of Palestinian causes had been allowed to occur.

The movement was outlawed as a terror group in the summer. At multiple protests following the ban, numerous individuals have been taken into custody for expressing solidarity for the organization, which has obtained permission to dispute the restriction.

"Some of them include blatant anti-Jewish sentiment, clear support for Hamas. Not everyone involved, however there is considerable of such content, which clearly poses harmful to many within our community," the chief rabbi stated.

"You cannot separate the rhetoric on our public spaces, the conduct of people in this manner, and what subsequently occurs, which was the recent terror incident."

He also appealed to the administration "yet again", to "assert authority on these demonstrations, they are risky."