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Britain's Interior Minister expressed disappointment that pro-Palestinian protests proceeded on Thursday evening following the terrorist incident that claimed the lives of two men near a synagogue in the city of Manchester.

Britain's home secretary also urged protesters to "step back" from plans to hold protests in the days ahead.

"In my view that carrying on in this manner appears contrary to British values, it seems wrong," she remarked regarding demonstrations arranged for this weekend.

Demonstrators in central London protesting the Israel's naval forces stopping a flotilla transporting humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip clashed with police officers outside the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday night.

Large crowds holding Palestinian flags and banners could be seen on the government district into the evening.

London's police force reported that 40 people had been arrested. A half-dozen of those detained were arrested for assaults on police officers.

"It's crucial to make a distinction between what is happening in the Middle Eastern region and situations developing at home," the home secretary remarked on a breakfast show on Friday.

"My message would be to individuals who are planning to participate in a protest is to just take a step back for a minute, and consider if you had suffered the loss of a family member to a terrorist incident in this nation," she emphasized.

There were "robust" authorities to defend the freedom to protest, she mentioned, but they could be set aside on the guidance of the police.

"I can act based from the police, if they were to advise me there was an lack of capacity to respond and to control the protests, then there are legal measures that are available," she explained.

Jewish community representatives express worries

Britain's Chief Rabbi stated that many people of the Jewish population questioned why protests in support of Palestinian causes had been allowed to take place.

The organization was banned as a terrorist organisation in the summer. At various protests following the ban, numerous individuals have been detained for demonstrating backing for the organization, which has secured permission to challenge the restriction.

"Some of them contain explicit antisemitism, outright backing for the militant group. Not all participants, however there is so much of such content, which undoubtedly represents dangerous to many within our community," the chief rabbi declared.

"There's no distinction between the rhetoric on our streets, the conduct of individuals in this way, and what inevitably results, which was yesterday's terror incident."

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