| Ghazi Zaiter | |
| Office: | Minister of Public Works and Transportation |
| Party: | Amal movement - Shia |
| Country: | Lebanon |
| Term End: | 2020 |
| Children: | Lama 32, Mohammed 31, and Ziad 27 |
Ghazi Zaiter (ar| غازي زعيتر ; born 1949 in Qasr, Lebanon) is a Lebanese member of parliament representing the Baalbeck-Hermel district. Born to a Shia family, he was Minister of Defense from 1998 to 2000.[1] He also served as Minister of Agriculture, Public Works, Industry and Social Affairs.[2] [3] He is part of the Amal Movement led by Nabih Berri which is part of the opposition after the 2009 election.[4]
During the 2020 Beirut explosion, Ghazi Zaiter was Minister of Public Works and Transportation at the time and has been under scrutiny since. He had been responsible for dealing with the ship carrying 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that docked on Beirut's Port in 2013.[5] In addition, breakthroughs from Al Jadeed's interview with the ship's captain, Boris Prokoshev, have brought to light that the crew's lawyer who helped them abandon the ship in Beirut had been Mohammed Zaiter, Ghazi Zaiter's son.[6] With the explosion of the ship's content in 2020, many have viewed Zaiter's inaction towards the ship as incriminating.[7]