Four ships from the United States and France are transporting aid from Larnaca port in Cyprus to the Gaza Strip amid the spiralling humanitarian crisis there, the Cyprus presidency said on Tuesday. However a US Defence Department spokesman said that none of the 569 tonnes of humanitarian assistance that has arrived at a US-built pier in the besieged territory had been distributed to those in need. Victor Papadopoulos from the presidential press office told state radio that 1,000 tonnes of aid were shipped from Cyprus to the besieged Palestinian territory between Friday and Sunday. Papadopoulos…