Cypriot Foreign Minister, Constantinos Kombos, said on Wednesday that his country's role in the conflict in the Gaza Strip was exclusively humanitarian and that anything else would be out of touch with reality.

Kombos told reporters at a joint press conference with the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus: “We are worried about an escalation. We are concerned about finding ways for a diplomatic solution in this situation and of course, we continue to plan our activities in relation to humanitarian aid.

“We are trying to do our duty at a humanitarian level. Nothing more and nothing less.

“Anything beyond that, in my opinion, is completely baseless and not in touch with reality.”

The comments come after the chief of the armed Islamist group, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said that because Cyprus had become a part of Lebanon’s conflict with Israel, what awaited it would be “very big”.

In a televised address last week, Nasrallah said: “The Cypriot government must be warned that opening Cypriot airports and bases for the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon means that the Cypriot government has become part of the war and the resistance (Hezbollah) will deal with it as part of the war.”

“[Israel] knows that what also awaits it in the Mediterranean is very big... In the face of a battle of this magnitude, it knows that it must now wait for us on land, in the air, and at sea.”

Speaking at Wednesday's press conference, America’s ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher said the US and the international community would continue to rely on the important role that Cyprus plays.