Anis al-Naqqash, a political Lebanese activist in the field of Islamic resistance, died at the age of 70.

He died on Monday after contracting the coronavirus, el-Nashra website reported.  

Naqqash was a veteran activist in the Islamic resistance front.

He was also a comrade of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah member who was assassinated in Syria in 2008, and the CIA claimed credit for his unlawful murder.