This so-called social reconciliation is one of the complicated issues yet to be addressed, as President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority prepares to announce the promised new government as early as this week. While much attention has been focused on how the pact might affect interaction with Israel and financial aid from the United States and Europe, those involved in the process acknowledged that tapping a slate of new ministers to prepare for elections was only the first of several hurdles Palestinians face.

Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s central council who has been involved in the reconciliation efforts, said it remained unclear what would become of the 40,000 employees of the Hamas government — and the 70,000 former Palestinian Authority workers in Gaza who for seven years have collected paychecks but sat idle. It is hard to imagine international donors continuing to pay two people for each job.

A plan for integrating the security forces in Gaza and the West Bank has yet to be made. Who will control the Gaza side of the border crossing into Egypt has not been resolved. The fate of 41 Fatah members imprisoned in Gaza and 19 Hamas prisoners in the West Bank is also undecided.

“I can’t tell you there is a full plan,” Mr. Barghouti said last week in an interview at his office in Ramallah. “There are a lot of files, and there is a lot of need for good, wise, policy. Otherwise, instead of solving problems, we should be creating problems.”

“You will see a lot of change,” Mr. Barghouti added. “But believe me, people have doubts all the time, and unless you show them a tangible result, you cannot get rid of these doubts.”