Using Palestinians as human shields

Hello Rabbi. A few weeks ago, an investigation was published in Haaretz (for the sake of discussion, let’s assume that all the details I mention here are indeed true) that during the war, a procedure was created in the IDF infantry battalions called the “Mosquito Procedure.” The meaning of this procedure is that sometimes the IDF captures Palestinians in Gaza in order to use them as a kind of human shield, that is, they are sent to places where there is a concern about explosives/there are terrorists there so that they absorb the fire and not our soldiers. They are not drafted into the army and do not receive pay and in fact they have no basic rights. They are completely dependent on our kindness. Does the rabbi think this is a moral thing and does this have any halachic problem?