Also an option: do not shoot at all. If they are unarmed they pose no threat to you, and cannot therefore be a diversion. It also remains the only moral option

Also an option: do not shoot at all. If they are unarmed they pose no threat to you, and cannot therefore be a diversion. It also remains the only moral option, but of course this assumes you consider other people to be humans - given that members of the Stern gang became impotent members of the Israeli government, I am basically convinced that the Isreali government does not, though some individuals do.