Hamas most wanted playing cards

The Hamas most wanted cards are decks of playing cards which include Hamas members wanted by the State of Israel.

Unofficial IDF deck
As part of the Israel–Hamas war, an unofficial card deck of 54 wanted individuals were distributed to soldiers. The idea for the deck was inspired by the Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards created by the Defense Intelligence Agency with top wanted members of Saddam Hussein's regime after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The history of making such cards dates back to the American Civil War.

More than 10,000 decks of the cards were distributed to Israeli soldiers to help the soldiers identify top Hamas targets and to unsettle Hamas officials. The hierarchy of various Hamas officials have been mixed around in the deck in order to attempt to embarrass more higher-ranking officials.

As of January 17, 2024, 20 individuals from the list were killed (and the status of 4 more is unknown).

Christian cowboy deck
A group of Christians who had come to volunteer in Israel in the aftermath of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, designed and printed another unofficial deck of playing cards with photos of the most wanted Hamas personalities and distributed the cards to Israeli soldiers in southern Israel and Gaza. The cards were designed and printed at Be'eri Printers at Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the hardest hit kibbutzim during the October 7 attack.

The deck was printed in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, and included two joker cards and 12 Hamas personalities, including Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Obeida, Deif, Issa, al-Arouri, Mashal, Hamad, Sa'ad, Muhammad Sinwar. The depictions in these cards, from the drawings of the subjects to how their names were written in Arabic, are intended to mock the Hamas leaders. For example, Yahya Sinwar is written as Sinfar, a play on the Arabic word "alfar" for mouse, and his picture depicts him as a mouse.