Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Mahmoud Da'as (wanda aka fi sani da "kunya" Abu Khalid; 1934 <unk> 2009) ya kasance babban kwamandan kungiyar 'Yancin Falasdinu (PLO), yana aiki a matsayin memba na dogon lokaci na Majalisar Juyin Juya Halin Fatah da Babban Majalisar Soja. An haife shi a arewacin Falasdinu, Da'as ya girma a Jordan inda ya shiga Rundunar Sojojin Jordan (JAF). An horar da shi a matsayin injiniyan soja, daga baya aka nada shi laftanan Kanal kuma shugaban rundunar injiniya ta 2 ta Jordan. Da'as ya shiga kungiyar PLO a shekarar 1967, kuma ya yi watsi da JAF a lokacin yakin basasa.
Baƙar Satumba ta shekara ta 1970. A sakamakon haka ya tashi a cikin PLO, kuma ya zama babban kwamandan soji a rikicin Larabawa da Isra'ila, yana shiga cikin manufofi a Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, da Uganda. Bayan Yarjejeniyar Oslo I, Da'as ya zama mai ba da shawara na soja na Shugaba Yasser Arafat kuma mataimakinsa a Majalisar Dokokin Falasdinu.