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The Interior Minister expressed regret that Palestinian-supporting demonstrations proceeded on Thursday evening following the terrorist incident that claimed two lives near a Jewish place of worship in the city of Manchester.

Britain's home secretary also urged demonstrators to "step back" from intentions to organize marches in the next few days.

"In my view that proceeding in this way does feel contrary to British values, it feels inappropriate," the minister commented concerning demonstrations scheduled for this week.

Demonstrators in downtown London demonstrating against the Israel's naval forces halting a flotilla carrying humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip clashed with law enforcement outside Downing Street on Thursday night.

Substantial groups carrying Palestinian flags and banners could be observed on Whitehall throughout the night.

London's Metropolitan Police reported that fourty individuals had been arrested. A half-dozen of those detained were arrested for assaults on law enforcement personnel.

"It's crucial to establish separation between events unfolding in the Middle Eastern region and situations developing at in our country," the home secretary stated during a breakfast show on Friday.

"I would advise to people who are planning to participate in a protest is to just take a step back for a minute, and consider if you had lost a close relative to a terror attack in this nation," she emphasized.

There were "strong" measures to safeguard the freedom to demonstrate, she mentioned, but they could be superseded on the recommendation of the law enforcement.

"I can act based from the law enforcement, if they were to tell me there was an lack of capacity to respond and to oversee the protests, then there are powers that are accessible," she elaborated.

Community representatives express apprehensions

Britain's Chief Rabbi remarked that many people of the Jewish community questioned why marches in solidarity of Palestinian causes had been authorized to occur.

The group was proscribed as a prohibited organization in July. At various demonstrations following the ban, numerous individuals have been arrested for demonstrating backing for the organization, which has won approval to contest the proscription.

"Some of them include outright anti-Jewish sentiment, outright backing for Hamas. Not every single person, however there is a significant amount of such content, which undoubtedly represents harmful to many within our society," the chief rabbi stated.

"It's impossible to disconnect the rhetoric on our streets, the actions of people in this way, and what ultimately follows, which was the recent terror incident."

Additionally, he called on the administration "yet again", to "assert authority on these demonstrations, they are risky."