A group of four mothers of murder victims announced Tuesday they intend on erecting a protest tent opposite the Knesset next week, to demonstrate against public apathy toward cases such as theirs.

The women said they had decided to act after they heard about the murder of Rishon Letzion teenager Tzahi Basha, who was stabbed to death during a brawl in the city Saturday night.

Ilana Shelahov, mother of Shaked Shelahov, said: "People are being murdered, this can happen to everyone, and no one is doing anything about this." Shelahov's daughter was killed while riding in a car in Ashkelon when criminals intending to kill members of a rival gang mistakenly shot her.

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Sarah Sapir, mother of Ma'ayan Sapir, will also participate in the protest. The 15-year-old Ma'ayan was raped and murdered by a Rehovot teenager.

The other members of the group are Havtzelet Amram, whose daughter Inbal was killed by a thief who stole her car; and Yehudit Mor, whose son Raz was killed while attempting to break up a scuffle at a party.

Shalhov said: "We are four mothers who have connected to each other after the things that have happened to us. We thought that if four mothers succeeded in taking the Israel Defense Forces out of Lebanon, we also can do a lot." She was referring to the Four Mothers Movement who in the late 1990s pushed for the IDF to pull out of the Security Zone in South Lebanon.

"We want to do this for others, because tomorrow or the next day this will happen to other people. We hear again and again about murder victims, and you can explode from the fact that nothing is done," Shalhov said.

The group said it wants to raise public awareness, and bring about the judicial system in question, which in their view allows murderers to be released from jail too soon.

The mothers also want to gain government support for families of murder victims, making their treatment euqal to that of the relatives of victims of terror attacks. "In the meantime, only the rights of prisoners are recognized, and not ours," Shalhov said.

The mothers expressed the hope that the general public will join in their protest, and that MKs will visit their tent.