A member of al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades terrorist group was killed during a clash in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley.

A member of al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades terrorist group was killed during a clash in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley, the army said in a statement Thursday.

The Palestinian Ibrahim Abdul Mohti Abou Maaileq, known as Abi Jaafar, succumbed to his wounds in hospital on Wednesday. He was shot after he attempted to flee a checkpoint the military had erected in an attempt to stop him.

Abi Jaafar was in a black Chrysler when he hit a soldier at the checkpoint while trying to flee. He also opened fire on the unit deployed there, injuring an officer, the army said.

He was also wounded when the members of the checkpoint fired back at him. He later died in hospital.

The army communiqué said the suspect had ties with the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group and coordinated with its leader in the Syrian area of al-Qalamoun that lies near Lebanon's eastern border.

Abi Jaafar smuggled suicide bombers to Lebanon and plotted terrorist bombings, the statement read.

An ID in the name of Ahmed Omar Saleh was found with him, it added.

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings that have targeted the Iranian Embassy in Beirut's southern suburbs in November.

Its leader, Majed al-Majed, was arrested by the army last month and said he later died at a military hospital in Beirut from a chronic illness.