Lebanese group Hezbollah has vowed to confront the United States and Israel over their strikes on Iran, AFP says.

“We will undertake our duty of confronting the aggression,” Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a statement, adding that his movement would not leave “the field of honour and resistance”.

The Lebanese group, which is backed by Iran, has so far not taken action since the US and Israel began striking Iran on Saturday.

It is organising a gathering on Sunday afternoon in its stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburb in a show of support for its ally Iran, amid fears from Lebanese authorities that it might intervene in the conflict.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, following an emergency meeting of the country’s Higher Defence Council, has said that “the decision of war and peace rests solely with the Lebanese state”.